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Fiasco

Stanisław Lem

Paperback | Pages: 322 pages

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Title	:	Fiasco
Author	:	Stanisław Lem
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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Original Title:	Fiasko
ISBN:	0156306301 (ISBN13: 9780156306300)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Pirx
Literary Awards:	Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Runner-up (1988)

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Ratings: 4.12 From 3031 Users | 235 Reviews

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This is a tough one, even for Lem fans. Stick with it though, the long, dense build up in the beginning pays off. Like many of Lem's other works, this book documents the complete lack of cultural reference points, and thus any basis for communication whatsoever, between human and alien intelligence. In this case, repeated mis-communication leads to the worst of all possible outcomes. A fiasco indeed.The book contains some very interesting musings concerning human conceptions of alien life and

FIRST: Lots of complaints about the eBook format. Its the worst I have encountered. The occasional lack of punctuation makes for some interesting (and frustrating) sentences. There are words I am not even sure are wordseven in science fiction. Suspend your angersince this book has been out of print for a long time and e-format is your only choice.NOW THE BOOK: Human nature and the universe we inhabit are both presented in all their forms, and this complicated web of physics, psychology, game

Starts out great, but after its initial third Lem spends too much time on fake science and has characters behave too stupidly to be believable. Despite the themes skillfully woven into the early parts of this book, the rest fails to capitalize on this, and so Fiasco falls far short of one of Lem's other novels about attempted contact, Solaris. I'll be comparing Fiasco to Solaris frequently throughout this review, so if you've haven't read the latter consider yourself warned- and also, go read

It seems that cultural difference between human and alien civilization is one of the major themes of Lem's books, judging by previously read novel The Invincible and Tarkovsky's adaptation of Solaris.I must admit that this is the very first science fiction work which I found boring. Introduction is unnecessarily too long, as well as the whole book. Going into every single detail, Lem's writing style in Fiasco is closed to be called "tolstoyesque", apart from the fact that he is far from being

Oh, how delighted I was after trudging slowly through 60-odd pages of detailed descriptions of alien landscapes and the complex geological processes which created them to discover, a third of the way through the book, that it was all totally irrelevant to the rest of the story. This is self-indulgence on the part of the writer that verges on rudeness to the reader. Its self-gratification, not storytelling. FIASCO was Stanislaw Lems final work of fiction, and you can tell that he had no real

Fiasco is a deeply pessimistic science fiction novel. It's about the typical hard sci-fi topic: first contact between humans and aliens. And as in "Rendezvous With Rama," "The Forever War," and "The Mote in God's Eye," much of the fun is the detailed imagining of how interstellar space travel would actually work, complete with relativistic time distortion and keeping humans alive in alien worlds. What separates this book from those others is Lem's belief that true understanding between different

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.