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Imaginary magnitude

by Stanisław Lem, Marc E. Heine

This work presents a series of introductions to non-existent twenty-first-century books, covering speculative topics such as teaching English to bacteria and the scientific analysis of computer-generated literature.

Accession 15675 ISBN 0749305282 Publisher —
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