![]() ![]() Īnd I'm only mentioning a single aspect, here. Not to mention biological tools that feel like the most excellent precursor to Farscape or Asher's, or the look at a truly alien mind, as seen in Watts'. Not only superficially, but fundamentally, with strange technological focuses and social structures. Because this is an intelligent alien race that does not think like us. This is a full mystery that gets only digs us deeper into our own misunderstandings. "Yeah, yeah, but before Star Trek in the wee year of 1959, Eden was born, giving us one of the richest, most detailed alien worlds as seen through a small crew named only by their job titles, instead forcing us to see things through their worldviews, as screwed up (normal!) as they are, misunderstanding everything they see on Eden." "What?" you say, "That whole tail-end period of the golden age of SF was FULL of great and detailed authors. He has a wide range of works, from humorous to deeply disturbing to fantastically mysterious alien discoveries. What a gem of an old SF! Indeed, Stanislaw Lem might be one of the very best SF authors, period. ![]()
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