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Title	:	Fiasco
Author	:	Stanisław Lem
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 322 pages
Published	:	March 15th 1988 by Mariner Books (first published 1986)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. European Literature. Polish Literature

Fiasco

Stanisław Lem

Paperback | Pages: 322 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 3031 Users | 235 Reviews

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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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I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence. Stanisław Lem, FiascoIn many important respects Fiasco is Stanisalw Lems crowning achievement. Publsihed in 1986 toward the end of the Polish author's distinguished career spanning more than half a century, the novel contains at its heart a key theme revisited by Mr. Lem over the years: the impact of science and technology on multiple dimensions of intelligence and communication. What a literary achievement! Please do not be

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.

Fiasco can be seen as the consecuence of break the first directive of Star Trek.Fiasco is a complex SF novel that deepens in a recurrent issue in Lem : the fundamental dissability of the human mind of understand or comunicate with alien minds as in his novels Solaris or The Invincible.Is a really hard SF novel,where the scientific face is rigurous in the to day science as for example in the laser or Bussard fussion reactor as propulsion tools in a starship,and is plausible in the extrapolations.

That title certainly prepared me for the frustrations and ultimate failure that the characters felt during that whole endeavor.Anyway we return to Stanislaw Lems favorite theme: Who are we to think of ourselves as something more than apes in face of the universe. Just look at his critique of the cold war and this novels most famous quote: I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence. All the while throwing logical and emotional curveballs at us.Are you sure who Mark Tempe

Unfortunately "Fiasco" was over written. This was LEM's final book of fiction I believe (1986). Admittedly, long scifi novels were the trend during the 80's and there is a great story in there, but it is buried under many long technical info dumping. It was like reading a series of Cosmos episodes on PBS. Some might like this more than others, I personally don't mind too much, unless of course, there is far too much of it. And this was that. I felt it harmed the pace; made it difficult to follow

i adored the first section of fiasco, in that annoying hold-on-let-me-just read-you-this-one-paragraph way; parvis's solo trek across titan, ruminating on its lifeless beauty, is a perfect example of lem's ability to portray both breathtaking wonder and unforgiving bleakness at the same time. i also liked the introduction of tempe, which was done in an interesting & sympathetic enough way that it avoided coming off like a total sci-fi cliche. the story started lagging for me when the quintan