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Fiasco

Stanislaw Lem (author)

Paperback Published on: 05/07/2018; Language: English, Polish (Original language of a translated text)

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A Very Human Encounter with Aliens

Lem's book about humanity's attempt at contacting extra terrestrial life is a fantastic meditation on mankind's own limitations. The opening of this book i... READ MORE

Ethan Rea at Belfast

The Ethics and Issues with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

‘Fiasco’, or ‘The Ethics of, and Problems with, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence’ as I like to think of it, has rocketed up to be quite easily ... READ MORE

Max G at Guildford

Synopsis

'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'

The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...