Fiasco (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanislaw Lem
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Philosophical science fiction
- Time of Work: The future
- Setting: Titan, a moon of Saturn, and Quinta, a planet in the Harpy System
- Principal Characters: Angus Parvis, Mark Tempe, Father Arago, Steergard
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Communication, Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, War, Technology
- Locales: Space, Quinta (fictive), Titan
The Novel
Fiasco tells of mankind’s first contact with an alien civilization. Having searched the heavens for centuries, scientists finally discover, on distant Quinta, an intelligent species at roughly the same technological level as humanity. The attempt to visit them becomes a fiasco. The novel explores the many barriers to communicating with aliens.
Fiasco opens with a small-scale fiasco, set in a time (perhaps the twenty-first century) previous to the main action of the novel. Angus Parvis arrives on Titan, a moon of Saturn which is being...
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