A review by robertrivasplata
One Human Minute by Stanisław Lem

4.0

Three book reviews. The 1st review is of a book that does not exist, the 2nd review is of a book from the future (ca. 2100), & the 3rd review is of a genre of books still to be written. The 1st review is of a reference book collecting a minute's worth of data for all of humanity. The 2nd review is of a book of military science from the future, when all war is made by nanobots. The 3rd review, dealing with the search for extraterrestrial life from the perspective of calculating the odds of the emergence of intelligence elsewhere in the milky way, is the densest & the hardest read. Lem has a dim view of humanity & a dark sense of humor, so it's both surprising and completely unsurprising that he looked down upon his fellow sci-fi authors with whom he shared so much.