He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution and hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply, Tichy finds himself shot, frozen and thawed out in a future beyond anything he could ever have imagined. Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand). 'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem / ISBN 9780241312780 / 129-page paperback from Penguin Classics
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