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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100156340402

ISBN-139780156340403

eBay Product ID (ePID)72592

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Book TitleFuturological Congress : from the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1985

TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Space Opera, Science Fiction / General

FeaturesReprint

GenreFiction

AuthorStanislaw Lem

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight4.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN85-005500

ReviewsThe futurologists of the world have gathered at their Eighth World Congress at the Costa Rica Hilton to discuss the problem of overpopulation. Their deliberations, however, are interrupted by a revolution which the government attempts to quell with chemical weapons. The air and water are laden with "benignimizers" and other exotic drags which send futurologist Tichy careening into a hallucinatory tomorrow. Lem's view of the overcrowded future is original and disturbing. A pessimistic, mordantly funny book, well translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel.

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal891.8/537

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisThe Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize-winning author Stanislaw Lem., The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize-winning author Stanislaw Lem. "Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem."-- Paris Review Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure--a future whose strangeness exceeds anything the congress conjectured. Translated by Michael Kandel. "A vision of Earth's future where the authorities dose the population with 'psychemicals' to make life in a desperately over-populated world worth living."-- Boston Globe, The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize-winning author Stanislaw Lem. "Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem."--Paris Review Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure--a future whose strangeness exceeds anything the congress conjectured. Translated by Michael Kandel. "A vision of Earth's future where the authorities dose the population with 'psychemicals' to make life in a desperately over-populated world worth living."--Boston Globe, Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure. Translated by Michael Kandel.

LC Classification NumberPG7158.L39Z413 1985