Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction.Fiction / Science Fiction / Alien Contact.This is a very realistic novel, perhaps a bit more 'modest' than Solaris.

Rohan is confronted with a strange world where he is surrounded by 'dead machines'. Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Exploration The Invincible Stanislaw Lem - Openly Licensed Educational Resources. The Invincible is a quite well written 'narrative machine' based on a fictitious problem.'The release of these new volumes seems to expand the possibilities of what a university publisher can do.' - LitHub Product Details And for my money, it won't be surpassing him anytime soon…Enjoying the genius of Lem requires readerly dexterity and a willingness to go wherever the author takes you…These marvelous, absorbing and often hilarious books make our weary universe seem pale and undistinguished by comparison.' - The Washington Post 'Fourteen years after his death, the universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem. Lem was haunted by the idea that losses can overwhelm the human capacity to apprehend them.' - The New Yorker Astronauts disembark from a spaceship into the aftermath of an atrocity scientists face an alien intelligence so unlike our own that their confidence in the special purpose of human life falters. 'In a cycle of melancholy sci-fi novels written in the late nineteen-fifties and sixties- Eden, Solaris, Return from the Stars, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, The Invincible, and His Master’s Voice-Lem suggested that life in the future, however remote the setting and however different the technology, will be no less tragic. Lem was a giant of mid-20th-century science fiction, in a league with Arthur C.

The Invincible by Stanisław Lem