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Author | : Stanislaw Lem |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0262538482 |
An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanisław 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.
Author | : Edmond Hamilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
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Scientists building the first United States moon base in 1966, discover some amazing ruins and a 30,000-year-old record.
Author | : Stanisław Lem |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have passed for him, while 127 years have elapsed on earth. He finds that the earth has changed beyond recognition, filled with human beings who have been medically neutralized. How does an astronaut join a civilization that shuns risk? Translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author | : Erich von Daniken |
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Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : John Carrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Boats and boating |
ISBN | : 9780960356621 |
Author | : E. J. Patten |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442420332 |
On the eve of his twelfth birthday, Sky, who has studied traps, puzzles, science, and the secret lore of the Hunters of Legend, realizes his destiny as a monster hunter.
Author | : William Shatner |
Publisher | : Pocket Books/Star Trek |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671526092 |
A novel to create a coda to Star Trek Generations -- and reveal the awesome secret of the return of Jams T. Kirk ...
Author | : Erich von Daniken |
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Rachel Harrison |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2024-07-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593641671 |
A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut. Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she’s been or what happened to her. Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong—she’s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who—or what—is she?
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1901 |
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