The Futurological Congress

✍ Scribed by Lem, Stanislaw

• Book ID: 108595069
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The futurologists of the world have gathered at their Eighth World Congress at the Costa Rica Hilton to discuss the problem of overpopulation. Their deliberations, however, are interrupted by a revolution which the government attempts to quell with chemical weapons. The air and water are laden with "benignimizers" and other exotic drags which send futurologist Tichy careening into a hallucinatory tomorrow. Lem's view of the overcrowded future is original and disturbing. A pessimistic, mordantly funny book, well translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel.