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Invencível
Uma nave vinda da Terra é desafiada por uma misteriosa inteligência hostil
Invencível, um cruzador de segunda classe, aterra em Regis III, um planeta recentemente descoberto que parece estar desabitado. A missão da tripulação é investigar o que aconteceu a Condor, um cruzador semelhante que ali desapareceu inexplicavelmente durante uma missão exploratória de rotina.
Utilizando as mais elevadas medidas de segurança, a tripulação inicia a busca enquanto os cientistas começam a investigar o planeta, tentando identificar as fontes de potencial perigo. O que descobrem é surpreendente - uma forma de vida que aparentemente evoluiu de máquinas autónomas e que se autorreproduzem. Afinal, quem é o inimigo? E o que se esconde realmente neste planeta supostamente desabitado há milhões de anos?
Invencível, um cruzador de segunda classe, aterra em Regis III, um planeta recentemente descoberto que parece estar desabitado. A missão da tripulação é investigar o que aconteceu a Condor, um cruzador semelhante que ali desapareceu inexplicavelmente durante uma missão exploratória de rotina.
Utilizando as mais elevadas medidas de segurança, a tripulação inicia a busca enquanto os cientistas começam a investigar o planeta, tentando identificar as fontes de potencial perigo. O que descobrem é surpreendente - uma forma de vida que aparentemente evoluiu de máquinas autónomas e que se autorreproduzem. Afinal, quem é o inimigo? E o que se esconde realmente neste planeta supostamente desabitado há milhões de anos?
213 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 21, 2024
About the author
Stanisław Lem
512 books4,720 followersStanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world.
His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult and multiple translated versions of his works exist.
Lem became truly productive after 1956, when the de-Stalinization period led to the "Polish October", when Poland experienced an increase in freedom of speech. Between 1956 and 1968, Lem authored 17 books. His works were widely translated abroad (although mostly in the Eastern Bloc countries). In 1957 he published his first non-fiction, philosophical book, Dialogi (Dialogues), one of his two most famous philosophical texts along with Summa Technologiae (1964). The Summa is notable for being a unique analysis of prospective social, cybernetic, and biological advances. In this work, Lem discusses philosophical implications of technologies that were completely in the realm of science fiction then, but are gaining importance today—like, for instance, virtual reality and nanotechnology. Over the next few decades, he published many books, both science fiction and philosophical/futurological, although from the 1980s onwards he tended to concentrate on philosophical texts and essays.
He gained international fame for The Cyberiad, a series of humorous short stories from a mechanical universe ruled by robots, first published in English in 1974. His best-known novels include Solaris (1961), His Master's Voice (Głos pana, 1968), and the late Fiasco (Fiasko, 1987), expressing most strongly his major theme of the futility of mankind's attempts to comprehend the truly alien. Solaris was made into a film in 1972 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972; in 2002, Steven Soderbergh directed a Hollywood remake starring George Clooney.
He was the cousin of poet Marian Hemar.
His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult and multiple translated versions of his works exist.
Lem became truly productive after 1956, when the de-Stalinization period led to the "Polish October", when Poland experienced an increase in freedom of speech. Between 1956 and 1968, Lem authored 17 books. His works were widely translated abroad (although mostly in the Eastern Bloc countries). In 1957 he published his first non-fiction, philosophical book, Dialogi (Dialogues), one of his two most famous philosophical texts along with Summa Technologiae (1964). The Summa is notable for being a unique analysis of prospective social, cybernetic, and biological advances. In this work, Lem discusses philosophical implications of technologies that were completely in the realm of science fiction then, but are gaining importance today—like, for instance, virtual reality and nanotechnology. Over the next few decades, he published many books, both science fiction and philosophical/futurological, although from the 1980s onwards he tended to concentrate on philosophical texts and essays.
He gained international fame for The Cyberiad, a series of humorous short stories from a mechanical universe ruled by robots, first published in English in 1974. His best-known novels include Solaris (1961), His Master's Voice (Głos pana, 1968), and the late Fiasco (Fiasko, 1987), expressing most strongly his major theme of the futility of mankind's attempts to comprehend the truly alien. Solaris was made into a film in 1972 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972; in 2002, Steven Soderbergh directed a Hollywood remake starring George Clooney.
He was the cousin of poet Marian Hemar.
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December 5, 2024
Um livro típico de Stanislaw Lem. Muito mais que simples ficção científica, desafia a evolução de Darwin, demonstrando que nem sempre o mais forte suplantará o mais fraco. Também de certa forma, coloca a questão de qual o nosso lugar no universo e se o direito à vida se aplica apenas a seres sentientes ou se todo o ser também tem esse direito.
Lem, previu neste livro, o advento da IA, ainda que não seja uma IA propriamente como a encaramos hoje em dia mas mesmo assim, uma forma de IA.
É por isso a par de Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asimov e Philip K. Dick, um dos maiores nomes da ficção científica.
Lem, previu neste livro, o advento da IA, ainda que não seja uma IA propriamente como a encaramos hoje em dia mas mesmo assim, uma forma de IA.
É por isso a par de Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asimov e Philip K. Dick, um dos maiores nomes da ficção científica.
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