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A 10-year expedition to the stars returns astronaut Hal Bregg to an Earth he barely recognizes, for 127 years have elapsed on Earth in his absence. He must come to terms with a civilization that is now pampered by robots, entertained with illusions and completely unconcerned with knowledge.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Another impressive book by Lem, who is, in my mind, a top science fiction writer in any language. Return From the Stars proves this by staying away from formulas, relying instead on strong characters who actually are affected emotionally and psychologically by the futuristic world they live in. If anyhting, Lem is a writer concerned with characters, and ultimately with the heart of man and how it reacts to the world.
This book will speak to anyone who has had the experience of returning to a community from which one has been excluded for a number of years; be it a return from prison, repatriation or imigration, the experience of Bregg returning from the stars is symbolic of all of them. To those who never left a community and never returned to it later, the book will be a chance to see what returning from the stars might be like.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I am from Turkey(somewhere between MiddleEast and Europe). I have been known as a fast reader all my life.( I can read more than 200 pages an hour in Turkish, 150 in English, 100 in German ). It was one of those days when I was used to reading 1000 page books in a few hours, when I came across this book. It took me a full 2 days, unbelievable for a book of size 300 pages. Basically it is a book written on a space pilot, who returns to Earth after a 10 year journey to a different star; meanwhile 120 years had passed in Earth time. It is not a book that you can read 10 or 20 pages a day.The first chapter is the definitive one : if you can manage to read it (app. 70 pages ) at one grasp, you will love it; if not, you will go on thinking that Solaris is the best book written by Lem. For me it is this book. In Solaris Lem was looking at a planet level, in this book he is looking at an individual human level. Lem is my favorite writer, and I love all of his writings. Lem has created two space pilots : Ijon Tichy and Pirx the Pilot. The adventures of Ijon Tichy are more amusing and eventful, Pirx on the other hand relatively uneventful and serious. This book is much more closer to the adventures of Pirx, than Tichy. If you get this book and love it, I will suggest that you get Eden too.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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In my opinion this is the best Lem's book. I have read it several times already (the first copy of it I bought years ago in Polish language) and I know I will come back to it in the future. This book is just a ready to be filmed script. It would make a fantastic movie if filmed by a sensible non-Hollywood director.
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