The Invincible (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanislaw Lem
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Experimental science fiction
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: Planet Regis III in the outermost quadrant of the Lyre Constellation
- Principal Characters: Horpach, Rohan
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Adventure, Robots or robotics
- Locales: Space, Regis III (fictive)
The Novel
The Invincible is ostensibly a traditional science-fiction adventure novel whose tight and engaging plot describes an investigatory expedition to a distant planet. It is, in addition, a parabolic commentary upon the difficulties of human and nonhuman communication.
The narrative begins with the landing of the spaceship Invincible on the planet Regis III in the outermost quadrant of the Lyre Constellation. The goal of the crew, led by Horpach, the spaceship commander, with the assistance of Rohan, the navigator, from whose perspective subsequent...
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