Literature

Fiasco

Stanisław Lem · 1986

Lindy Score

3,204·Classic

40 yrs

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1

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Why it endured

Lem's final novel — humanity makes contact with an alien civilization and catastrophically misunderstands it. A profound meditation on the impossibility of true communication across difference.

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