Most Popular Books by Stanislaw LEM

A message from another civilization in the universe is received on Mount Palomar. Upon deciphering it scientists learn that there are multiple meanings, some of them are dangerous.

A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew''s attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth-cruel precisely because it is so human. Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book