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Stanislaw Lem One Human Minute (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- One Human Minute
- Publication Name
- One Human Minute
- Title
- One Human Minute
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 015668795X
- EAN
- 9780156687959
- ISBN
- 9780156687959
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Humorous / Black Humor, Science Fiction / General
- Release Year
- 1986
- Release Date
- 31/12/1986
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publication Year
- 1986
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 3.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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Contains three essays--"One Human Minute," "The Upside-Down Revolution," and "The World as Cataclysm"--from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
015668795x
ISBN-13
9780156687959
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038280913
Product Key Features
Book Title
One Human Minute
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Humorous / Black Humor, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
1986
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
3.5 Oz
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Along the lines of A Perfect Vacuum (1979), the three slender pieces here - apparently of recent vintage - start out as reviews of nonexistent books, but soon develop into essays that straddle the borderline between fiction and non-fiction. The title piece discusses a book that purports to describe, in statistical form, the entire human race during a single minute of time. Thus, "casualties from falling meteors are rare. . .0.0000001 persons per minute die that way"; and "if all humanity - those five billion bodies - were cast into the ocean, the water level would rise less than a hundredth of a millimeter. A single splash, and Earth would be forever unpopulated." "The Upside-Down Evolution" is a provocative, frightening, and plausible look at weapons systems of the 21st century: huge, expensive, malfunction-prone, human-operated and controlled weapons (planes, tanks, submarines, etc.) will be replaced by myriads of artificial insects, tailored to perform any desired function; human generals and grunts alike are thus rendered supernumerary. In the final piece, "The World as Cataclysm," Lem argues that the formation of Earth, and later the evolution of the human species, are the results of wildly unlikely coincidences. The chances that humanity will encounter another intelligent race are, therefore, small; we should concentrate our attentions on stars having a galactic location and developmental history similar to that of our own sun. Brief but stimulating work, much less belligerent than Microworlds (1984), with the concerns here for once scaled down to a level readily assimilated by mere humans., The noted science-fiction writer blurs the boundaries between present and future, fiction and nonfiction, in this collection of three apocryphal essays. "One Human Minute" purports to be a review of a book collecting statistics on everything that occurs on Earth in 60 seconds; in fact, it's a meditation on the nature of reality and the meaning of human behaviorplus a wickedly funny satire of publishing. "The Upside-Down Evolution" chronicles the metamorphosis of 21st century armaments from nuclear stockpiles into micro-armies of "synsects," deadly machines so tiny and elusive that conventional weapons are helpless against them. "The World As Cataclysm" pretends to be an introduction to a book of the same title; it sees the emergence of humanity as the end result of a series of catastrophic, chance occurrences that killed off other species with just as good a claim to rule the world. ("The laws of Nature act not in spite of random events but through them," he concludes.) Lem's delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity's possible fate.
Copyright Date
1986
Dewey Decimal
891.8/537
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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