Series
Ijon Tichy
Stanisław Lem · 2 novels · 2 novellas · 5 novelettes · 21 short stories · 2 collections · 1954–2025
Ijon Tichy is a fictional character who appears in several works of the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem: initially in The Star Diaries, later in The Futurological Congress, Peace on Earth, and Observation on the Spot. Tichy is also the narrator in a 1973 novel Professor A. Dońda, being the professor's sidekick.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Professor Tarantoga(2 works)
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Ijon Tichy at the centre, 2 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1950s8
- 1960s13
- 1970s7
- 1980s1
- 1990s2
- 2000s0
- 2010s0
- 2020s1
Shape
2 novels · 2 novellas · 5 novelettes · 21 short stories · 2 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace explorationspacefar futurefunnyadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 96% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book28 of 32 works carry a tone
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- The Maskdarkest
- The Futurological Congressbrightest
- The Star Diariescalmest
- III (Professor Zazul)most intense