![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lem is meticulous in describing the multiple repairs the crew make to the ship, though the technology is pretty outdated. The crew of six, known mostly by their titles (Captain, Physicist, Doctor, Engineer, Cyberneticist, Chemist), and all men, come alive in their professional roles as they grapple with one technical problem after another. They are truly stuck and first have to use their wits just to find a way out of the ship and begin to repair all the damage. And understanding the alien is always out of reach, no matter how many theories they devise, corpses they dissect, observations they make or battles they fight.Įden 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, wrecking multiple onboard systems, flooding the reactor engine room, shorting most electricity and hence all the robotic workers. But few writers have as much fun and dramatic flare presenting his human crews as they struggle with things they cannot understand. None of these expeditions to fictional planets succeed because, Lem suggests, there is something fundamentally impossible about bending the human mind with all its preconceptions to fit the drastically different conditions of alien civilizations. ![]()
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