Eden

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»In den Berechnungen war ein Fehler. Sie waren nicht über die Atmosphäre hinweggeflogen, sondern waren mit ihr zusammengestoßen. Das Raumschiff bohrte sich mit lautem Krachen, von dem die Trommelfelle anschwollen, in die Lufthülle. « So beginnt Stanislaw Lems Buch Eden und die Havarie der fünf Astronauten, die auf dem Planeten gleichen Namens in einem fernen Sonnensystem merkwürdige und bedenkenswerte Abenteuer erleben. Kommentare Neuer Kommentar Suche Fun beyond Solaris Michael Battaglia Y-m-d H:i:s I've only read three books by Lem counting this one and while nothing so far has bypassed Solaris as his absolute masterpiece, for me it's a step up from the strangely dense Fiasco. As in those two books the theme here is the one that Lem seems to count as his favorite, that we should not assume that because we are smart and can get into space and across stars, that we can automatically "understand" any alien life that we come across, or even start to fit what we see into established human preconceptions. Fortunately this is an excellent theme to explore and one rarely dealt with in SF, so Lem easily finds new wrinkles to explore every time he writes about it, even if the conclusions wind up being nearly the same every time. In this novel, six explorers crashland on the planet Eden and while trying to fix their spaceship and get off they find that the planet is home to a civilization that seems to make absolutely no sense. They keep coming across odd artifacts, a strange factory, a graveyard, weird villages, all of which they try to quantify through human theories that they wind up discarding anyway because they can't hope to explain what they're seeing. Most of the book is just strange, unexplainable event piled on strange unexplainable event . . . perhaps because I read it in spurts this approach never becomes wearying, or maybe it's the constant combinations of interactions between the six characters, three of which comes across as fully rounded human beings (The Captain, the Doctor and the Engineer, the only one who seems to have a proper name, oddly enough) while the Chemist, the Physicist and the Cyberneticist mostly just take up space and are there for the main three to argue with, that keeps the plot moving along and engaging. In the end there are explanations of a sort, but they seem anticlimatic and feel a bit like a cop out, a concession to readers not really prepared for the honest answer that maybe there really is no way to understand something utterly alien. All told, Lem's imagination and presentation of his argument is impressive and mostly entertaining, even if you have to read Solaris to get a better idea of what he's trying to say. link:http://www.amazon.com/review/R2O0SVZJ98GB8X/r ef=cm_cr_rdp_perm Antworten 0 0 Kommentar schreiben Name: E-Mail:  nicht benachrichtigenbenachrichtigen Titel: Bitte geben Sie den Anti-Spam-Code aus diesem Bild ein.