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| Original Title: | Fiasko |
| ISBN: | 0156306301 (ISBN13: 9780156306300) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Pirx |
| Literary Awards: | Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Runner-up (1988) |
Stanisław Lem
Paperback | Pages: 322 pages Rating: 4.12 | 3031 Users | 235 Reviews
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| Title | : | Fiasco |
| Author | : | Stanisław Lem |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 322 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 1988 by Mariner Books (first published 1986) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. European Literature. Polish Literature |
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The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking Earth. As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding. Translated by Michael Kandel.The novel was published in German translation (translated by H. Schumann) in 1986. The Polish text published in 1987, the English translation (by M. Kandel) the same year.
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This is one of the best, and also one of the most brutal, books I've ever read. It is a hard read. This is not a book for the faint; it explores, as does a lot of communist science fiction, the utter impossibility of rational exchange between crazy-different cultures. Also a lot in here about the failings of man. Not a book for the faint of heart.This book is not boring at all -- in fact it deals with a lot of fascinating ideas -- but damn it has problems. Not the least of which is the writing style, which might suffer from a bad translation but I doubt it. Much of the second half of the book is pure tell-don't-show, which must have started out that way in the original Polish unless the translator has been horribly irresponsible, and I would've loved to have instead read those scenes through the POV of a character. Lem can do this: we
I consider this Lem's masterpiece. A brilliant story showing a step by step undermining of ideals in the face of foreign thinking, incomplete infornation, suspicion, and prejudices.
Although I liked this book and will give it 4 stars as a rating, there are a couple of objections that if taken into account, would drop the rating to at least 3 stars.1. Mr. Lem was a great thinker, no doubt about that, but a lazy writer in my humble reader's opinion (at least in this book). Throughout the book events are told to us, not shown and also the pov changes sometimes from tell to show and the reverse as well, and it is not consistent. I would expect that from a rough draft or an
Such a weird book! Some classics, like The Lord of the Rings read just like anything that came after them at least in part because they had such an effect on future works. Not Fiasco.It starts with the redirected landing of a spaceship to one base on Titan instead of the other. Turns out it was redirected because they assumed it had a person named Killian on board and they wanted this person. Who is this Killian? About a hundred pages later we are a thousand years in the future and Titan has
A fiasco on Saturn's Moon, Titan, causes the loss of several men. Many years later, the starship Eurydice is built on Titan for a mission to the far side of the coalsack nebula, to investigate a planet where there they've found evidence of technological extra-terrestrial intelligence. The bodies of the men are found and packed aboard the Eurydice for revival, if possible. It happens that only one can be revived using the parts of another, but unfortunately they have no way of knowing exactly who
Do you despise "sci-fi" featuring aliens with legs/faces/eyes/fur that highlight the author's intellectual shallowness at best or intentionally insult your intelligence at worst? Does your heart rate accelerate when a spaceship in a book/movie flies between worlds with a flip of a switch magical warp drive - ignore relativity - tech without any expectation that you might be puzzled by the blatant inconsistencies with the physical laws of our universe? If intellectually lazy pretend-sci-fi is not
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