Fiasco (Polish: Fiasko) is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, first published in a German translation in 1986. The book, published in Poland the following year and translated into English by Michael Kandel in the same year, is a further elaboration of Lem's skepticism: in Lem's opinion, …
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Fiasco (Polish: Fiasko) is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, first published in a German translation in 1986. The book, published in Poland the following year and translated into English by Michael Kandel in the same year, is a further elaboration of Lem's skepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (the main theme of the novel) is more likely cultural disparity rather than spatial distance. It was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The novel was written on order from publisher S. Fischer Verlag around the time Lem was emigrating from Poland due to the introduction of martial law. Lem stated that this was the only occasion he wrote something upon publisher's request, accepting an advance for a nonexistent novel.
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Fiasco
Paperback, 336 pages
English language
Published July 5, 2018 by Penguin Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-33435-5Copied ISBN!
Станислав
925 pages
Russian language
Published May 13, 2007 by Izd-vo AST, Khranitel £.
- ISBN:
- 978-5-17-040300-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 156845779
Fiasco
322 pages
English language
Published May 13, 1989 by Futura.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7088-4226-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 20219033
Fiasco
Paperback, 461 pages
Spanish language
Published June 30, 2005 by Alianza Editorial Sa.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-206-5893-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 59354194
Fiasko
Paperback, 428 pages
German language
Published Nov. 1, 2000 by Suhrkamp.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-518-39674-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76216632
Fiasco
322 pages
English language
Published May 13, 1987 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-15-130640-4Copied ISBN!
Fiasco
322 pages
English language
Published May 13, 1987 by Deutsch.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-233-98141-3Copied ISBN!
Fiasco
336 pages
English language
Published June 22, 1988
- ISBN:
- 978-0-15-630630-0Copied ISBN!
Fiasco
Mass Market Paperback, 260 pages
French language
Published April 1, 1994 by Calmann-Lévy.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7021-1710-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 27824113
Fiasko
445 pages
Russian language
Published May 13, 1998 by ĖKSMO-Press, Tekst.
- ISBN:
- 978-5-04-000671-7Copied ISBN!
Fiasko
Polish language
Published May 13, 1987 by Wydawnictwo Literackie.
- ISBN:
- 978-83-08-01697-8Copied ISBN!
Fiasko
German language
Published May 13, 1989 by Fischer.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-596-29253-0Copied ISBN!
Das Fiasko
paperback
German language
Published June 9, 1979
- ISBN:
- 978-3-353-00158-0Copied ISBN!
Fiasko
Polish language
Published May 13, 1999 by Literackie.
- ISBN:
- 978-83-08-03008-0Copied ISBN!
Fiasco
Unknown Binding
Published May 13, 2007 by Alianza.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-206-5414-0Copied ISBN!
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