Eden / Stanislaw Lem ; translated by Marc E. Heine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lem, Stanisław.

Standardized Title:

Eden. English

Language:

English

Polish

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1989]

Summary:

A crew of six crash-land on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. They set forth into a strange world that grows ever stranger. The sun is not completely circular. The desert ground is soft, spongy, it exudes acrid vapors. Thickets of plants are shaped like hanging spiders; trees, violet and blue, breathe noisily; flower petals lift into the air like a flock of startled pigeons. The men come to a wall that moves in rhythmic waves; they enter an automated factory where mysterious objects are created, destroyed, and created again in a meaningless cycle. They meet an inhabitant of Eden, a large, humped, pearl-colored, naked torso from which protrudes another, smaller torso with a child's head and two small arms -- a "doubler," they call him. One doubler leads to another, to whole communities, to a world of flying saucers and genetic engineering. And everywhere, death. Swollen bodies in ditches and in wells, a beehive structure filled with clusters of glass eggs -- a skeleton within each egg.

Notes:

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

ISBN:

0151275807 :

OCLC:

19324099