The Chicago Tribune lauded Stanislaw Lem as “not only a marvelous spinner of tales of the fantastic but also a challenging philosopher of the meanings and ramifications of technology.” Eden stands as a timeless and powerful examination of the conflict between human nature, human discovery, and all-too-human flaws. But as the crew unlocks the secrets of this twisted society, the most haunting fact they must face is how similar it is to their own. It was first published in 1958 in issues 211-271 of the newspaper Trybuna. Something is wrong with the inhabitants of Eden. Eden is a 1958 social science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisaw Lem. And everywhere there are images of death: mass graves, bodies in ditches and wells, clusters of egglike structures filled with skeletons. In a labyrinth of plant-shaped buildings are dead ends, passageways, domes, vaulted ceilings, and giant statues. But it is the signs of humanity that are most puzzling. What makes us read this book with interest today Certainly authors exceptional imagination plays an important role here rich visions of planetary culture and nature are presented with just the right amount of suspense. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. The landscape is bizarre, hosting acrid deserts, hissing trees, and thick spiderlike vegetation. Eden, written in 1959, opens the period of Lems mature science-fiction. Eden is a 1958 social science fiction novel. Six explorers-the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticist-crash land on a beautiful but strange planet, fourth from another sun. Eden begins like a classical story in the middle of things as a huge white spaceship crash lands on an unexplored planet, burying its main hatch underground. From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad (Kirkus. From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates “a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad” ( Kirkus Reviews).

Eden by Stanisław Lem