"Not Welcome Here": Biological versus Postbiological in Lem's Space Operas.
This essay offers a technocentric perspective on two space operas by Stanis»aw Lem, The Invincible (1966) and Fiasco (1987), novels that span much of his creative career. As an evolutionary philosopher, Lem was decades ahead of his time in recognizing the idea of postbiological evolution and how tec...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 34 - 66 |
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University of California Press
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