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Professor Mmaa's Lecture
"I recommend this book to the reader because it is massive, impressive, imaginative, and grimly amusing. I cannot promise the reader that at any point he will shake his sides with laughter, but I can promise him a wry pleasure to be derived from the skilful dissection of folly. -Bertrand Russell
What's it like to be a termite? Professor Mmaa's Lecture explores how a society of termites might work, and what they would think of us Homo Sapiens. A pioneering work of xenofiction. A hilarious social satire.
About this edition
Professor Mmaa's Lecture was first published in London in 1953 by Gaberbocchus Press, which Stefan and Franciszka Themerson founded and ran together for decades.
This edition was set from the 1953 first edition. It includes Bertrand Russell's preface from that edition, with permission from The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd. It also includes Franciszka's drawings from the same printing.
Professor Mmaa's Lecture has been out of print for ages. There was a 1975 American edition (also out-of-print), which was substantially different. I am pleased to make it available to the world again.
Edition
- Publisher
- Picolibrary
- Publication
- September 1, 2026
- Illustrations
- Drawings by Franciszka Themerson
- Preface
- Preface by Bertrand Russell
Ebook
- Price
- $9.99
- ISBN
- 979-8-9977300-0-0
Paperback
- Price
- $13.99
- ISBN
- 979-8-9977300-1-7