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Eden / Stanislaw Lem ; translated by Marc E. Heine.
Author
Lem, Stanisław
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Uniform title
Eden.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1989].
copyright ©1989
Description
262 pages ; 22 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
PG7158.L39 E313 1989
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PG7158.L39 E313 1989
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Subject(s)
Science fiction
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Translator
Heine, Marc E.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Science fiction
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Summary note
A crew of six crash-land on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. They set forth into a strange world that grows ever stranger. The sun is not completely circular. The desert ground is soft, spongy, it exudes acrid vapors. Thickets of plants are shaped like hanging spiders; trees, violet and blue, breathe noisily; flower petals lift into the air like a flock of startled pigeons. The men come to a wall that moves in rhythmic waves; they enter an automated factory where mysterious objects are created, destroyed, and created again in a meaningless cycle. They meet an inhabitant of Eden, a large, humped, pearl-colored, naked torso from which protrudes another, smaller torso with a child's head and two small arms -- a "doubler," they call him. One doubler leads to another, to whole communities, to a world of flying saucers and genetic engineering. And everywhere, death. Swollen bodies in ditches and in wells, a beehive structure filled with clusters of glass eggs -- a skeleton within each egg.
Notes
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
ISBN
0151275807
9780151275809
9780156278065
0156278065
LCCN
89001963
OCLC
19324099
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