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02042aam a22003258i 4500 001 3687245C8C3A11EAB4A2F82B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200502010016 008 190617s2020 mau 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019024771 020 $a 0262538482 020 $a 9780262538480 (softcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h pol 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PG7158.L39 $b P613 2020 082 00 $a 891.8/5373 $2 23 100 1 $a Lem, StanisÅaw, $e author. 240 10 $a PowroÌt z gwiazd. $l English 245 10 $a Return from the stars / $c StanisÅaw Lem ; Translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson. 260 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts ; $b The MIT Press, $c 2020. 263 $a 2002 300 $a 295 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "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 the book 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 gsafd 700 1 $a MarszaÅ, Barbara, $d 1940-2012, $e translator. 700 1 $a Simpson, Frank, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200502010339.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3687245C8C3A11EAB4A2F82B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search