Penguin Modern: The Thee Electroknights

What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson, essays radical and inspiring, poems moving and disturbing, stories surreal and fabulous, taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New Yorks underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.