A pessimistic, mordantly funny book.' Kirkus Reviews ' Lem's view of the overcrowded future is original and disturbing. ' A vision of Earth's future where the authorities dose the population with ' psychemicals' to make life in a desperately over-populated world worth living.' The Boston Globe But when he awakens in 2039, he is faced with a future unlike any that the Congress could have ever imagined. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a cure. ' The Paris Reviewīringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Polish author Stanislaw Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress in Costa Rica to discuss the overpopulation problem.
But few could imagine it better than Lem. The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia.
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