Astronaut Ijon Tichy's spaceship is damaged by an asteroid, and there's no one to help him. But suddenly, Ijon's past and future selves appear! The Ijons fill the spaceship, but to the ‘present' Ijon's dismay, they fight instead of helping him repair the ship! Ijon realizes he needs to get along with himself in order to save his own life.

An NPR Best Book of the Year, 2019. Bank Street College of Education Best Books, 2019.

Stanislaw Lem is a renowned author whose work has been translated into 41 languages.

Polish. Originally published in Poland as Dzienniki gwiazdowe by Iskry in 1957. English translation by Michael Kandel published in the United States by Graphix/ Scholastic in 2019.

Ijon Tichy is caught in a TIME LOOP.

An NPR Best Book of the Year

"... J Muth's hilarious and gentle masterpiece." -- Neil Gaiman

Alone in his broken spaceship-with no one there to help him-he could remain trapped in space indefinitely!

But soon something strange begins to happen: Tichy's past and future selves appear. And rather than helping one another, they bicker and fight as they crowd into the tiny vessel. Will Tichy stop fighting with himself long enough to save his own life?

This sharply comical story by world-renowned science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem has been adapted into a brilliant graphic novel by Caldecott Honor and Eisner Award-winning artist Jon J Muth.