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Stanislaw Lem Return from the Stars (Paperback) MIT Press
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- Book Title
- Return from the Stars
- Publication Name
- Return from the Stars
- Title
- Return from the Stars
- Translator
- Barbara Marszal
- Contributor
- Barbara Marszal (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0262538482
- EAN
- 9780262538480
- ISBN
- 9780262538480
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Science Fiction / Time Travel, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Space Exploration
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 18/02/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Series
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Item Weight
- 10.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission that lasted ten years--although because of time dilation, 127 years have passed on Earth. Bregg finds a society that he hardly recognizes, in which danger has been eradicated. Children are "betrizated" to remove all aggression and violence--a process that also removes all impulse to take risks and explore. The people of Earth view Bregg and his crew as "resuscitated Neanderthals," and pressure them to undergo betrization. Bregg has serious difficulty in navigating the new social mores. While Lem's depiction of a risk-free society is bleak, he does not portray Bregg and his fellow astronauts as heroes. Indeed, faced with no opposition to his aggression, Bregg behaves abominably. He is faced with a choice: leave Earth again and hope to return to a different society in several hundred years, or stay on Earth and learn to be content. With Return from the Stars , Lem shows the shifting boundaries between utopia and dystopia.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262538482
ISBN-13
9780262538480
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038291254
Product Key Features
Book Title
Return from the Stars
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / Time Travel, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Space Exploration
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
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Pg7158.L39p613 2020
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"Fourteen years after his death, the universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanislaw Lem. And for my money, it won't be surpassing him anytime soon...Enjoying the genius of Lem requires readerly dexterity and a willingness to go wherever the author takes you...These marvelous, absorbing and often hilarious books make our weary universe seem pale and undistinguished by comparison." -- The Washington Post "In a cycle of melancholy sci-fi novels written in the late nineteen-fifties and sixties -- Eden , Solaris , Return from the Stars , Memoirs Found in a Bathtub , The Invincible , and His Master's Voice --Lem suggested that life in the future, however remote the setting and however different the technology, will be no less tragic. Astronauts disembark from a spaceship into the aftermath of an atrocity; scientists face an alien intelligence so unlike our own that their confidence in the special purpose of human life falters. Lem was haunted by the idea that losses can overwhelm the human capacity to apprehend them." -- The New Yorker "The release of these new volumes seems to expand the possibilities of what a university publisher can do." -- LitHub "The writing is leisurely and elaborate, with a lot of gorgeous descriptive set-pieces....Atypical work from a master, but carried off with characteristic panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Lem's thought-provoking, reissued 1961 classic explores the questionable utopia that has emerged on a vivid future Earth through the eyes of an astronaut recently returned from the Fomalhaut star system, 23 light years away." -- Publishers Weekly, "The writing is leisurely and elaborate, with a lot of gorgeous descriptive set-pieces....Atypical work from a master, but carried off with characteristic panache." -- Kirkus Reviews "Lem's thought-provoking, reissued 1961 classic explores the questionable utopia that has emerged on a vivid future Earth through the eyes of an astronaut recently returned from the Fomalhaut star system, 23 light years away." -- Publishers Weekly "The release of these new volumes seems to expand the possibilities of what a university publisher can do." --LitHub "Fourteen years after his death, the universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanislaw Lem. And for my money, it won't be surpassing him anytime soon...Enjoying the genius of Lem requires readerly dexterity and a willingness to go wherever the author takes you...These marvelous, absorbing and often hilarious books make our weary universe seem pale and undistinguished by comparison." -- The Washington Post
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-024771
Dewey Decimal
891.8/5373
Dewey Edition
23
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