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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100156278065
ISBN-139780156278065
eBay Product ID (ePID)1323366
Product Key Features
Book TitleEden
Number of Pages276 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1991
TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Literary, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Space Exploration
GenreFiction
AuthorStanislaw Lem
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN89-001963
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal891.8/537
SynopsisA six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth-cruel precisely because it is so human. Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger: a desert plain exuding acrid vapors, a greenish tinge at the horizon, a gray seven-foot tree that hisses and withdraws into the ground when touched, and thickets of vegetation like hanging spiders. In a labyrinth of plant-shaped buildings are dead ends, passage-ways, domes, vaulted ceilings, and giant statues. And everywhere there are images of death: mass graves, naked bodies in ditches and wells, a beehive structure filled with clusters of giant eggs -- a skeleton within each egg. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth -- cruel precisely because it is so human.