Stanisław Lem's Tales of Pirx the Pilot published in Latvia (Petaura medības) in 1966, Poland (Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie) 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, is a series of short stories about a spaceship pilot named Pirx. They are some of the best known works of Lem, having been added to the required curriculum for Polish junior-high school students in the 1990s. Pirx stories can be classified as a moderate hard science fiction with some comic elements.
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