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Fiasco

Author

Stanisław Lem

Language

Polish

Year

1986

Country

Poland

Genre

Novel

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Fiasco 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 is more likely cultural disparity rather than spatial distance. It was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.