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 machinesperhaps 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.
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 machinesperhaps 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.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780262538473 |
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Publisher: | MIT Press |
Publication date: | 02/18/2020 |
Series: | The MIT Press |
Pages: | 240 |
Sales rank: | 71,019 |
Product dimensions: | 5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.63(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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