Eden

A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger: a desert plain exuding acrid vapors, a greenish tinge at the horizon, a gray seven-foot tree that hisses and withdraws into the ground when touched, and thickets of vegetation like hanging spiders.

In a labyrinth of plant-shaped buildings are dead ends, passage-ways, domes, vaulted ceilings, and giant statues. And everywhere there are images of death: mass graves, naked bodies in ditches and wells, a beehive structure filled with clusters of giant eggs — a skeleton within each egg.

The crew’s attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth — cruel precisely because it is so human.

Author: Stanislaw Lem
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 10/19/1991
Series: Helen & Kurt Wolff Book
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.29w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780156278065
Language: English