Peace on Earth

5) Peace on Earth

6) Local Inspection

Copyright

© Copyright by Stanislaw Lem, Krakow 1987

English translation copyright © 1994 by Harcourt Brace & Company

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lem, Stanislaw.

[Pokoj na Ziemi. English]

Peace on Earth/Stanislaw Lem; translated from the Polish by Elinor Ford with Michael Kandel. — 1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-15-171554-8

ISBN 0-15-600242-6 (pbk.)

Translation of: Pokoj na ziemi.

“A Helen and Kurt Wolff book.”

I. Title.

PG7158.L39P5713 1992

891.8’537-dc20 91-47970

Designed by Lydia D’moch

Printed in the United States of America

First Harvest edition

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