An elaborately illustrated A to Z of the face, from historical mugshots to Instagram posts.

The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.

Reclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.

An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes.

The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena.

Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space.

An early realist novel by Stanisław Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II.

A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanisław Lem.