The invincible / Stanisław Lem ; translated by Bill Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lem, Stanisław, author.

Contributor:

Johnston, Bill, 1960- translator.

Standardized Title:

Niezwyciężony. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, Polish.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2020]

Summary:

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines--perhaps the survivors of a robot war. Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: what course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge? In The Invincible, Lem has his characters confront the inexplicable and the bizarre: the problem that lies just beyond analytical reach.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

BLACK RAIN

AMID THE RUINS

CONDOR

THE FIRST

THE CLOUD

LAUDA'S HYPOTHESIS

ROHAN'S TEAM

DEFEAT

A LONG NIGHT

THE CONVERSATION

INVINCIBLE.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262357685

0262357682

9780262357678

0262357674

OCLC:

1129596964