Eden / Stanislaw Lem ; translated by Marc E. Heine.

Author
Lem, Stanisław [Browse]
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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 Browse related items Request
    Firestone Library - Stacks PG7158.L39 E313 1989 Browse related items Request

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      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.
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      "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
      ISBN
      • 0151275807
      • 9780151275809
      • 9780156278065
      • 0156278065
      LCCN
      89001963
      OCLC
      19324099
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