![]() ![]() ![]() Parvis ventures to the dangerous geyser region, where the others were lost. Plot summary Īt a base on Saturn's moon Titan, a young spaceship pilot Parvis sets out in a strider (a mecha-like machine) to find several missing people, among them Pirx (the spaceman appearing in Lem's Tales of Pirx the Pilot). Lem stated that this was the only occasion he wrote something upon publisher's request, accepting an advance for a nonexistent novel. Fischer Verlag around the time Lem was emigrating from Poland due to the introduction of martial law. The novel was written on order from publisher S. ![]() The book, published in Poland the following year and translated into English by Michael Kandel in the same year, is a further elaboration of Lem's skepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (the main theme of the novel) is more likely cultural disparity rather than spatial distance. ![]() Fiasco ( Polish: Fiasko) is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, first published in a German translation in 1986. ![]()
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