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The Adventures Of Pirx
''The Adventures of Pirx'' ( hu, Pirx kalandjai) was a television mini-series in Hungary in 1973 based on the 1968 science fiction short story collection ''Tales of Pirx the Pilot'' by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. Released by Magyar Televízió Magyar Televízió (''Hungarian Television'') or MTV is a nationwide public television broadcasting organization in Hungary. Headquartered in Budapest, it is the oldest television broadcaster in Hungary and today airs five channels: M1 HD, M ..., it was directed by and András Rajnai. Pirx was played by . Five episodes were aired. ("Seven Things You Did Not Know About Pirx's Adventures"), APATS GÁBOR, 2015.02.24 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales Of Pirx The Pilot
''Tales of Pirx the Pilot'' is a science fiction stories collection by Polish author Stanisław Lem, about a spaceship pilot named Pirx. The first collection of stories about Pirx was published in 1965 in the Soviet Union in Russian under the title ''Охота на Сэтавра'' ("The Hunt for Setaur"). It was translated in Latvian as ''Petaura medības'' in 1966. In 2009 a Lithuanian publisher ''Eridanas'' published the story as ''Setauro Medžioklė.'' In Poland a more complete collection (as ''Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie'') was published in 1968, and translated to English in two parts (''Tales of Pirx the Pilot'' and ''More Tales of Pirx the Pilot'') in 1979 and 1982. Pirx stories include both philosophical and comic elements. A fragment of "The Hunt for Setaur" was added to the required curriculum for Polish junior-high school students in the 1990s. Pirx universe From various details it may be concluded that the stories are set in the 21st or 22nd centuries, in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
