PEACE ON EARTH. Translated

by Elinor Ford with Michael Kandel by Stanislaw Lem

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. A spoof on the military-industrial complex featuring secret agent Ijon Tichy. While on a mission to the Moon his brain is fried by remote ultrasound, probably perpetrated by one of the intelligent, self-evolving Moon-based super weapons. He unknowingly carries a virus back to Earth that destroys all computer

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