Return from the Stars - Softcover

Lem, Stanislaw; Marszal, Barbara; Simpson, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156765934 ISBN 13: 9780156765930

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1989

Synopsis

Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have passed for him, while 127 years have elapsed on earth. He finds that the earth has changed beyond recognition, filled with human beings who have been medically neutralized. How does an astronaut join a civilization that shuns risk? Translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

About this title

About the Author

Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he is a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and he is the author of numerous works, including Solaris.

Synopsis

After a long journey to a distant star, Hal Bregg returns to the earth where he finds that technology has developed beyond his imagining, prosperity is limitless, and peace reigns and where he discovers new meaning in life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156765934
• ISBN 13: 9780156765930
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256