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Stanisław Lem

The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy MP3 CD – Unabridged, 24 Jan. 2017

by Stanislaw Lem (Author), David Marantz (Narrator)

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Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Audible Studios on Brilliance audio; Unabridged edition (24 Jan. 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 153664594X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1536645941
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.15 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm

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Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he was a contributor to many magazines, like the New Yorker, and he is the author of numerous works, including "Solaris".

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Eoghan Fitzsimons

Strangest Book Ever (in a good way)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 23 July 2022

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Kind of a slow starter, and the Inception-style "story within story within story" portions can be a bit confusing, but once you get into it you need to know what's actually happening beneath it all! Great book.

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Matt Miles

Is Lem's desperate future the one we have in store for us?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 September 2016

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In this novel, Lem explores - with no hesitation - the sheer, harrowing possibility of a greatly overcrowded world, governments turned to drastic measures, and the troubling, increasingly strange experiences of protagonist Ijon Tichy: a futurologist who manages to escape the early effects of widespread drugs - benignimizers - as they subdue the population into loving, almost brainless husks. Illusion follows illusion follows futuristic chaos, and all the while Lem shares his thoughts over drug use, the development of society and technology and the morality of humanity.

This is a fantastically written novel with a veritable dictionary of new terms and ideas. The structure may well be a little jarring to some, and of course unreliable narration plays a fundamental role throughout considering the focus on mind-altering drugs and subsequent illusions. Lem displays his descriptive abilities from the start, that visualise the world of the near and far future as well as a film could, and the curious, idiosyncratic characters that inhabit these times only enhance the reader's experience. Philosophy and futurology comprise a significant portion of the novel, so those with active minds are sure to become immediately interested in Lem's passages on this different, but possibly, humanity.

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A prophecy with a pinch of salt

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 June 2014

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This time around, Polish science-fiction kingpin Stanislaw Lem did not craft a serious techno-science-fiction novel. Operating with wild humour and grotesque, the author draws a caricatural vision of a future society, controlled by the mean government that secretly dazes everyone with extremely refined drugs. These medicaments of tomorrow bear an ability to totally replace the actual, bleak reality of an overpopulated globe with unearthly, euphoric, idyllic fantasmagorias. Is the main hero, who had hibernated and was waken up (thus he is a 'defrostee') many centuries later to that evil world of sweet illusion, the last one capable to discover the true state of affairs? A legion of neologisms coined by Lem, transmitted by a brillant translation by Michael Kandel (I feel justified to assess it, as I am acquainted with both the original and the American version of the text) are just a two of en masse Lem's feats that make this one a must-read not only for a Lem's fan.

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Profound and at times frightening

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Because so many (from Star Trek onwards) have essentially plagiarised (knowingly or unknowingly) many of the ideas in Lem's 1967 seminal work, one can see where all the ideas for films like the Matrix come from. Even an episode of Star Trek Voyager is in here (the section which deals with people being born old and gradually getting younger). Yes, it's all here. Apart from the extraordinary word play, double meanings, etc, which I admit can get a bit tiresome, this book deals with how we perceive reality (i.e. what is real?) and the problem of over-population, which is the fundamental problem of our times (not globabl warming). It is population explosion that will kill us in the end, and, as Dr Shockley, the inventor of the transister, warned, it will be a survival not of the fittest, but of the least fit.

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Toby King

Bleaky Humourous, Disturbingly Prophetic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 August 2008

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This 1971 offering from Polish author Stanislaw Lem mixes black humour, absurdism, and social satire brilliantly in a short novel that will make you laugh at times, and make you think always.
The Futurological Congress follows one of the adventures of character Ijon Tichy as he is caught up in a chemical attack. The book provides satire on both the social move towards a "chemically corrected society" where we use different drugs to fix any kind of problem we encounter, and a more subtle commentary on Lem's perception of the idiocy and deceit of government.
An excellent book that could be described as Huxley meets Dahli, definately worth reading!

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Piotr L

Incredible language

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Be prepared for a whole new lexical experience. Once the main character gets to the future, the language of the story switches upside down. It is unbelievable how Michael Kandel was able to get all those subtleties translated from Polish. Kudos.

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Like JG Ballard Meets Douglas Adams

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 October 2020

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Fantastic. Restores my faith in SCi-fi

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 April 2015

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Whether the hidden qualities of this have been lost in translation I'm not sure, but my impression of this supposed satirical sc-fi classic is that it is actually one big random heap of repetitive and rambling confusion. Starts promisingly, the type of dystopian, 60/70s sci-fi I usually go for and very much a reflection of what was happening in the late 60's (i.e. post-hippie social meltdown) but Stanislaw just can't seem to develop any kind of satisfying narrative. Feels like a book written on a cheap speed bender - good idea at the time, but come sobriety...ouch.

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