A review by cocchan
Fiasco by Stanisław Lem

3.0

I would lie if I say I've enjoyed it it in its full. It's a tough book to read that unwraps a little bit of story through very long and detailed (pseudo) scientific descriptions: some of them are really enigmatic and mystic (like the one of the first chapter, upon the aseptic landscape of Titan), others felt dragging (all the technical spaceship components and notions of physics). All of this is mingles, like is typical in Stanisław Lem's work, with a philosophical substrate about human hubris, what's considered life and what's worth to be spared or not for the sake of scientific progress.