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Aug 12, 2019 an interstellar 2ndclass cruiser called invincible, lands on regis iii, a planet that seems bleakly uninhabited. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 216 pages and is available in paperback format. The invincible originally appeared as the title story in lem s collection niezwyciezony i inne opowiadania the invincible and other stories. Ill remain open to giving another of lem s books a try. During the investigation, the crew finds evidence of a form of quasilife, born through evolution of autonomous, selfreplicating machinesapparently left behind by an alien civilization which had inhabited the planet a. Mar 23, 2020 stanislaw lem, polish author of science fiction that veers between humanism and despair about human limitations. The son of a doctor, lem studied medicine at lvov medical institute now lviv. The invincible is a quite well written narrative machine based on a fictitious problem. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the soon i will be invincible, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Niezwyciezony is a hard science fiction novel by polish writer stanislaw lem, published in 1964 the invincible originally appeared as the title story in lems collection niezwyciezony i inne opowiadania the invincible and other stories. From the beginning there is an undercurrent of tension implying that the crew has been together in space a little too long. Publication date 1973 topics science fiction, polish publisher.
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