futurology conference

Kongres Futurologiczny

👾If you could choose, would you face the tragic reality or use hallucinogens to create false illusions?
👾One of the representative works of Polish science fiction master Lem, it outlines the future of mankind with scientific humor and biting satire.
【Editor's Recommendation】
🌟A masterpiece by Polish science fiction master Stanisław Lem, it depicts the future of mankind with scientific humor and biting satire: If you can choose, will you face the tragic reality or use hallucinogens to create false illusions?
Lem is a Polish science fiction writer and philosopher. His works have been translated into 52 languages ​​and sold over 40 million copies worldwide. He single-handedly elevated Polish science fiction to world-class standards. As early as 70 years ago, he predicted the emergence of the internet, search engines, virtual reality, and 3D printing, and bluntly stated that humanity would face the challenges of artificial intelligence and the information explosion.
🌟Commemorative edition of the 100th anniversary of Lime, with a preface written by the Polish Ambassador to China.
【Content Introduction】
Iyan Tikh attends the 8th Futurology Conference to discuss solutions to humanity's challenges, but unexpectedly takes a hallucinogenic drug and travels to a future where people have eradicated poverty and disease and live in peace and happiness. Yet, Tikh senses something is amiss...
【Media Recommendation】
Lem possesses a truly remarkable imagination, one that is truly unique. His work offers a deeper understanding of the relationship between humanity and the universe, and compared to American science fiction, it is more literary and refined, possessing a deeper artistic conception and offering more depth and reflection.
——Liu Cixin Lem always finds a way to mock our lives from the core. He can cook together scientific papers, folk tales, fables, myths and legends, and use humorous and powerful absurd language and absurd plots to reflect our world.
——Wu Yan is one of the most intelligent, knowledgeable and humorous writers active today.
——Anthony Burgess is excellent in his control of language, imagination and the way of creating tragic characters, and no one can surpass him.
—Kurt Vonnegut Our exhausted universe pales in comparison.
—The Washington Post
A giant of science fiction who stands alongside Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Philip K. Dick.
—The New York Times

2021-08-01

译林出版社

143

9787544785631