Astronaut Ijon Tichy's spaceship is damaged by an asteroid, and there's no one to help him. But suddenly, Ijon's past and future selves appear! The Ijons fill the spaceship, but to the ‘present' Ijon's dismay, they fight instead of helping him repair the ship! Ijon realizes he needs to get along with himself in order to save his own life.

An NPR Best Book of the Year, 2019. Bank Street College of Education Best Books, 2019.

Stanislaw Lem is a renowned author whose work has been translated into 41 languages.

Polish. Originally published in Poland as Dzienniki gwiazdowe by Iskry in 1957. English translation by Michael Kandel published in the United States by Graphix/ Scholastic in 2019.