One Human Minute

• Book ID: 126118776
• Publisher: A Harvest / HBJ Books
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 266 KB
• Category: Standards
• ISBN: 015668795X

✦ Synopsis

In three scathingly humorous reviews of not-yet-written books, Stanislaw Lem brings us insights into the life of the 21st century. “One Human Minute” summarizes the activities of every person on earth during a single minute. “The Upside-Down Evolution” depicts a battlefield devoid of human activity, where synthetic bugs—synsects—vie for supremacy. “The World as Cataclysm” unfolds the universe as a crooked roulette wheel, where cosmic catastrophe prevails over orderly evolution. All reflect the speculative imagination and dark humor that have made Lem a grand master of the science fiction genre.

"It is exhilarating to watch Lem building his argument… a splendid performance by a powerful mind."
— Robert Silverberg, San Francisco Chronicle

✦ Subjects

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