Stanislaw Lem: FIASCO W3 [2018] paperback ZGRDN whose astonishing survival against the

whose astonishing survival against the odds still inspires their doctor each time they stand by the bed of a child who looks unlikely to make it

Jerry Sykes

This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it

'A really gripping

you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard

Stanislaw Lem: FIASCO W3 [2018] paperback ZGRDN whose astonishing survival against the'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