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Search ISBN:0156340402 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy Reference Book. Classifications : Eastern European World Literature Literature & Fiction Subjects Books Lem, Stanislaw ( L ) Authors, A-Z Science Fiction & Fantasy Subjects Books General Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Subje . Click the following link to view the cover of The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy.

1) Paperback Book The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Harvest Books. The past and future ooze into the moment of now within this timeless masterwork. So many layers of reality paint an amorphous reflection of our modern world. This sort of transcendent insight will revise society´s concept of our common ground. Perhaps, Lem´s byproducts (e.g. Ubik roll-on) will bring us back to where the happening is. Such is art.¤

2) Paperback Book The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Harvest Books. Lem takes the world as a rotting onion and slowly peels back the layers asking "Now this layer is slighty truer than the last, but wasn´t the last so much more delicious?" The author´s relieving and dark humor backs Tichy´s fearful adventures through a world of doubt. His drug obsessed and drug supported future brings to face the question of how important and what it means to be real. This is a quick and compelling read. You will be at the end before you realize that you really have no idea where you are. You may never look at your Advil the same once you realize the potential it represents.¤

3) Paperback Book The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Harvest Books. The 1980s Ella Fitzgerald TV commercial that asks: "Is it real or is it Memorex" comes to mind when reading Stanslislaw Lem´s 1974 satirical and thought-provoking futuristic novel. Lem´s dystopic narrative foretells of life aspects that have surfaced in today´s society. The extreme use of pharmacopeias to control the masses should make us all sit up and take note each time we seek the services of an allopathic physician. Cosmonaut Ijon Tichy virtually stumbles from a violent anarchistic demonstration in Costa Rica while attending the Eighth Futurological Congress, where "benignimizers" or love/feel good drugs are added to the public water supply. Tichy then tumbles into a seemingly utopic world where everyone´s needs are luxuriantly provided and where he continually questions: "is this reality or am I hallucinating?" When Tichy finally has access to the reality antidote, a horrifying scene is revealed with humans bunkered in deplorable conditions analogous to today´s agribusiness livestock warehousing. Ecstasy anyone?

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4) Paperback Book The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Harvest Books. I was disappointed when this book arrived. For one thing, I felt it was a poor value when I compared what I paid with the size of the book. But, I thought, this is Stanislaw Lem and it´s Ijon Tichy, so it should be worth it once I start reading. To me, though, it wasn´t. I found the beginning so boring that it kept putting me to sleep. Literally. I flipped through the book hoping to pick up on something that could hold my interest longer but I just couldn´t find it. It seems strange to me, since in the original Polish edition this was combined with two now separated works, including The Star Diaries, which is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi books. I guess everyone can have an off day.¤

5) Paperback Book The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Harvest Books. What an incredible and disturbing book. Lem is hilarious and his wordplay is genius. He couldn´t more perfectly establish a state of Paranoia...

I think you´ll love it.¤

6) Paperback Book The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Harvest Books.

Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure. Translated by Michael Kandel.

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