عنوان

Eden /

0151275807

0156278065

9780151275809

9780156278065

b790378

Eden /

[Book]

Stanislaw Lem ; translated by Marc E. Heine.

1st ed.

San Diego :

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,

[1989].

copyright ©1989

262 pages ;

22 cm

"A Harvest/HBJ book."

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

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.

Eden.

Eden.

English

Science fiction.

Lem, Stanisław

Heine, Marc E.

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