Stanisław Lem
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| Title | : | The Invincible |
| Author | : | Stanisław Lem |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 223 pages |
| Published | : | August 23rd 1973 by Sidgwick & Jackson (London) (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
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The Invincible (Polish: Niezwyciężony) is a science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, published in 1964. The Invincible originally appeared as the title story in Lem's collection Niezwyciężony i inne opowiadania ("The Invincible and Other Stories"). A translation into German was published in 1967; an English translation by Wendayne Ackerman, based on the German one, was published in 1973. An interstellar 2nd-class cruiser called Invincible, lands on Regis III, a planet that seems bleakly uninhabited. Invincible, and crew, are there to investigate the loss of sister ship, Condor. While maintaining the highest security measures, the crew begins searching for the lost Condor. Meanwhile, scientists start researching the planet, trying to identify sources of potential danger. During the search for the lost ship unknown structures are discovered, probably forming the equivalent of an Earth city. While a group of explorers scouts out the ruins, the Condor is found three hundred kilometers away (roughly 186 miles away).Details Books In Pursuance Of The Invincible
| Original Title: | Niezwyciężony |
| ISBN: | 0283979623 (ISBN13: 9780283979620) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 5852 Users | 316 ReviewsCrit About Books The Invincible
Luckily, I read the book in Serbian translation which was fairly good, so I didn't have to bother about it having been originally translated into German and then into English.Brilliant little book and such a sad story. It aroused so many conflicting emotions in me. At one point, I was infuriated by the crew's insistence on staying on Regis III and meddling with its ecosystem, and yet I was so startled when their plan to use the Cyclops backfired on them. Once again, Lem successfully sets out theEasily one of Lem's best novels, tense and gripping I found myself reading it at 3AM because I wanted to know what would happen next. Cinematic, would make a good SF movie. Unusually rich characterization for Lem, too. Boggles my mind that it had no available direct English translation until this year.
One of my favourite Lem novels, it possible worries me that it is one of those with the least amount of quirky strangeness and the most predictable plot arc. Two of my favourite quotes:Man -- he saw in a flash of insight -- had not yet reached the true pinnacle; he had not yet appropriated that galactocentric idea, praised since antiquity, whose real meaning could not consist in searching only for similar beings and learning to understand them, but rather in refraining from interfering with
Not the first and certainly not the last one book from Lem. Again - not just a space opera or a slasher. A book that brings our brains to work. And that I always look for when relaching for SF. At the same time there will always be a question - did it grew old. Well you got to check on your own! :) -
This is an aggressively detailed book - everything is written with a militarist's precision. Characters aren't so much built as dissected with a cold laser. But Lem uses this to create an epic, ominous and authentic world and to ask questions about the nature of humanity that are rare in the science-fiction genre. It's a fascinating book, but not gripping nor emotionally involving.
A short, raw, tight novel from Lem, dealing, in his inimitable manner, with an investigation of a ruined spaceship on a planet that holds a truly disturbing secret. One of Lem's best, this is true Verne-style futurizing.
A space ship lands on a mysterious, but apparently deserted planet. The mysterious part is that an earlier ship had landed there, but somehow was destroyed by an unknown assailant and unknown method. As they investigate the planet, they learn the truth about a mechanical evolution of unthinking, but deadly machines.As with most Lem books, there is both a strong component of scientific, philosophical ideas; on the nature of evolution, and the immense gap between different types of intelligence
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