The Star Diaries

Stories

The Star Diaries

• Introduction and Introduction to the Expanded Edition, in which professor Tarantoga presents the latest information on the documentation of Ijon Tichy's exploits.
• "The Seventh Voyage", in which a spaceship defect forces Tichy through a series of time vortices, creating a multitude of temporal copies of himself.
• "The Eighth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy represents Earth to petition for its admission to the United Planets.
• "The Eleventh Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy travels in disguise to the planet Circia to attempt to bring an end to hostilities coming from its robot population.
• "The Twelfth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy employs Prof. Tarantoga's new invention of time acceleration on the planet of Microcephalics.
• "The Thirteenth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy sets out to meet Master Oh. Instead, he finds two planets ruled according to the Master's principles. On Pinta, people are trying to become fish using a technique called evolution by persuasion. On Panta, all inhabitants are identical clones and exchange their jobs daily.
• "The Fourteenth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy goes hunting for Squamp - an animal whose area is several hectares and is being puzzled by mysterious objects, called scrupts.
• "The Eighteenth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy helps create the cause of our universe from a single electron.
• "The Twentieth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy is forced by his future self to lead a programme to ameliorate Earth's and mankind's history.
• "The Twenty-first Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy visits Dichotica - a civilisation which achieved total corporeal and mental plasticity after a thousand-year rule by automorphists, the local equivalent of transhumanists.
• "The Twenty-second Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy learns of the troubles of evangelising extraterrestrial civilisations.
• "The Twenty-third Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy visits a tiny planet, whose inhabitants save living space by frequently storing themselves as 'atom dust'.
• "The Twenty-fourth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy visits a civilisation which has assigned all power to a machine to establish planetary harmony. The machine changed them all into shiny discs to be arranged in pleasant patterns across their planet.
• "The Twenty-fifth Voyage"
• "The Twenty-eighth Voyage"

  Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

• "The Eighteenth Voyage"
• "The Twenty-fourth Voyage"
• "Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy "
• "Doctor Diagoras"
• "Let Us Save the Universe "

• "Professor A. Dońda"

  Other stories from elsewhere

• "Zakład doktora Vliperdiusa"
• "Pożytek ze smoka", written in 1983. First published in German as "Vom Nutzen des Drachen".Translated Russian as О выгодности дракона, translated by. The first Polish print was in the collection of the same name, .
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• "Ijon Tichy's Last Voyage" ; only published in the German and Polish editions of Playboy.
• The 1961 short story Formula Lymphatera was first published in the collection Księga robotów with the pre-annotation "from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy". The story was never republished with this pre-annotation, and nothing in the novel gives any indication at Ijon Tichy. Piotr Krywak tried to figure out possible explanations for this, apart from a typographical error.

  Never translated in English

• "", a pro-Communist satire on Cold War. In this story, after a confused landing, Ijon finds himself amid an antagonism between two superpowers "Merka" and "Rasha", and recognizes his confusion only standing in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. The story was never republished after 1957. In the 1971 edition of Dzienniki gwiazdowe, the introduction written by professor Tarantoga explains that, according to the Institute of Tychology, the 26th voyage does not belong to the pen of Ijon Tichy, i.e., it was an apocryphal tale.
• "Formuła Lymphatera"

  Adaptations