Guest in space
Guest in space (Polish title: Obłok Magellana ) is a science fiction - novel of the Polish author Stanislaw Lem back to 1955. The book was the basis of the Czechoslovak film Icarus XB 1 .
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The novel is set in a communist utopian future in the 32nd century. Humanity has colonized the entire solar system and is now trying for the first time to travel to another solar system.
227 men and women, including the protagonist, gather on the spaceship Gea to travel to the Alpha Centauri system . The journey takes many years and is psychologically stressful for the astronauts.
On the way, the astronauts stumbled upon an ancient relic of the Cold War: a NATO spaceship equipped with weapons of mass destruction that fell victim to an accident and has been drifting through space for centuries.
On a planet in the Proxima Centauri system , the expedition discovers traces of organic life and the protagonist stays on site to investigate them while the Gea flies on to search for the origin of this life. The protagonist then learns via radio that the ship has made contact with an advanced civilization in the Alpha Centauri system .
Censorship and criticism
When the novel was first published, parts of it were censored. Lem criticized the censored version, calling it an overly optimistic representation of communism. A full version was not published until the 1990s.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sim, Krystal: Ikarie XB-1 DVD review . SciFi Now. September 16, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
- ↑ O'Neill, Phelim: This week's new DVD & Blu-ray Ikarie XB-1 . The Guardian. August 31, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
Science fiction works: 1946 Człowiek z Marsa (Eng. Man from Mars , 1989) | 1951 Astronauci (Eng. The Planet of Death / The Astronauts , 1954) | 1955 Obłok Magellana (German guest in space , 1956) | 1957 Dzienniki gwiazdowe (German star diaries , 1961) | 1959 Eden (German Eden , 1960) | 1961 Solaris (German Solaris , 1972) | 1961 Pamiętnik znaleziony w wannie (German memoir, found in the bathtub , 1974) | 1961 Powrót z gwiazd ( Eng . Transfer / Return from the Stars , 1974) | 1964 Niezwyciężony ( Eng . The Invincible , 1967) | 1964 Bajki robotów (German robot fairy tale , 1969) | 1965 Cyberiada (German Kyberiade , 1983) | 1968 Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie (German Pilot Pirx , 1978) | 1968 Głos Pana (Eng. The Voice of the Lord , 1981) | 1969 Opowiadania (Ger. Nacht und Schimmel , 1972) | 1971 Kongres futurologiczny (Eng. The futurological congress , 1974) | 1976 Maska (German The Mask , 1978) | 1981 Golem XIV (Eng. Also spoke Golem , 1984) | 1982 Wizja Lokalna (dt. Lokaltermin , 1985) | 1986 Pokój na ziemi (Eng. The Flop / Peace on Earth , 1986) | 1987 fiasco (German fiasco , 1986) |
Various: 1951 yacht “Paradise” (play, with Roman Hussarski) | 1955 Szpital przemienienia ( Eng . The errors of Dr. Stefan T. / The Hospital of the Transfiguration , 1959) | 1957 Dialogi (German dialogues , 1980) | 1959 Śledztwo ( Eng . The Investigation , 1975) | 1964 Summa technologiae (German Summa technologiae , 1976) | 1968 Filozofia przypadku (German philosophy of chance , 1983/1985 ) | 1968 Wysoki Zamek (German The High Castle , 1974) | 1970 Fantastyka i futurologia (German Phantastik und Futurologie , 1977) | 1971 Doskonała próżnia ( Eng . The Perfect Void , 1973; The Absolute Vacuum , 1984) | 1973 Wielkość urojona , (German imaginary size , 1976) | 1976 Qatar , (Ger. The Cold 1976) | 1978 Rozprawy i szkice , ( Eng. Divided into Sade and the game theory , 1986; About extrasensory perception , 1987; Science-fiction: a hopeless case with exceptions , 1987) | 1980 Prowokacja , (German provocation , 1981) | 1983 One Human Minute , (German one minute of mankind , 1983) | 1983 The World as Holocaust , (German: The Disaster Principle , 1983) | 1983 Weapon Systems for the 21st Century or the Upside Down Evolution , (dt. Weapons systems of the 21st Century , 1983) | 1992 The past of the future | 1996 Tajemnica chińskiego pokoju , ( Eng . The technology trap , 2000) | 1999 Bomba megabitowa , ( Eng . The Megabit Bomb , 2003) | 2000 Okamgnienie , (German Risky Concepts , 2001) | 2003 DyLEMaty | 2006 Rasa drapieżców - Teksty ostatnie | 2009 Sknocony kryminał (posthumous) |
Adaptations: 1960 The Silent Star | 1963 Ikarie XB 1 | 1968 Solaris | 1972 Solaris | 1974 The investigation | 1978 test flight to Saturn | 2002 Solaris | 2007/2011 Ijon Tichy: Space pilot