Fiasco
Author: Lem, Stanislaw
ISBN: 9780241334355
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel' - The New York Times
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun- the purposeful and the desolate.'
The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...
ISBN: 9780241334355
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel' - The New York Times
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun- the purposeful and the desolate.'
The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...
