The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽✊️ A mixed bag as most short story compilations are. I'd say I liked 70% of the stories, so the balance is positive. Ijon Tichy is a space traveller who flies in his rocket to far away planets for work, or leisure. Most of his adventures are fun and interesting, from a science fiction point of view, my favourite being the 2 time travel tales, and a tale about robots. The seventh voyage - Ijon Tichy passes through a time vortex and finds a version of his future self trying to wake him up. After several time vortexes Tichy finds his rocket crowded with future versions of himself. The Eleventh Voyage - Tichy is sent to a planet governed by an evil computer. This planet is inhabited by robots who hate humans. To get there, Tichy has to wear a disguise, a kind of robot costume which is a bit uncomfortable. In addition, the traveller is instructed not to sneeze or cough as that would give himself away. The Twentieth Voyage - Tichy is visited by a future version of himself who asks him to travel to the future to take a job as Teleotelechronistic Historical Engineering to lead projects to regulate the past. 👍