![]() ![]() ![]() Bizarre Alien Biology: Not surprising for Stanisław Lem, but the Doublers really deserve special mention.Awesome Personnel Carrier: The Engineer takes great solace in finally getting the Defender, their armored exploration vehicle, working, which is armed with an anti-matter beam.But the society of the inhabitants of Eden, the “Doublers”, is strange and troubling, and making contact might be harder than initially thought.Įden contains examples of the following tropes: The second is to find out as much as possible about the inhabitants to determine whether they pose a threat and ideally, make contact. They then face two tasks: the first is repairing their mangled ship and technical equipment to hopefully return to space and ultimately home. The crew survive, but find themselves stranded in a strange and clearly inhabited world. A routine flyby by a human exploratory spaceship ends with the crash of the ship on an uncharted planet. ![]() A 1959 Science Fiction novel by Stanisław Lem. ![]()
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