Description: Return from the Stars, Paperback by Lem, Stanislaw; Ings, Simon (FRW); Marszal, Barbara (TRN); Simpson, Frank (TRN), ISBN 0262538482, ISBN-13 9780262538480, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Originally published in 1961, Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission of ten years. Due to time dilation 127 years have passed on Earth. Bregg returns to a society that he hardly recognizes, one where danger has been eradicated. Children are 'betrizated' to remove all aggression and violence, but this also removes all impluse to take risks and explore. Bregg has serious difficulty in navigating the new social mores, and fails to adapt. While Lem's depiction of a risk-free society is bleak, he avoids heroizing Bregg and his fellow astronauts -- faced with no opposition to his aggression, Bregg behaves abominably. The middle of th recounts the space mission, in which several of their collagues died horribly and very little of any scientific magnitude was discovered. As usual with Lem's books, there is no simple answer, and Lem's dissection has multiple targets"--
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Book Title: Return from the Stars
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.4in
Author: Stanislaw Lem
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Science Fiction / Time Travel, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Space Exploration
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
