Series
The Apocryphs
Stanisław Lem · 3 novelettes · 20 short stories · 2 collections · 1971–1986
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Apocryphs at the centre, 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.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s21
- 1980s4
Shape
3 novelettes · 20 short stories · 2 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:satirebooks and readingcontemporarychallengingadultmetafiction
Mood
Bright and intense: 83% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
grim · intensebright · intensegrim · calmbright · calmtenseadventurousdarkeeriefunnylightheartedrelaxingsadcatalogthis series
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book23 of 25 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- One Human Minutedarkest
- Introduction (Juan Rambellais et al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I)brightest · most intense
- The World As Cataclysmcalmest