num_pages: 149
description: The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize–winning author Stanislaw Lem.“Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem.”— Paris ReviewBringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure—a future whose strangeness exceeds anything the congress conjectured.Translated by Michael Kandel.“A vision of Earth’s future where the authorities dose the population with ‘psychemicals’ to make life in a desperately over-populated world worth living.”— Boston Globe
language: English
title: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
titlecomplete: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
characters: Ijon Tichy
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Polish Literature, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Poland, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 12339
series: Ijon Tichy
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Translation
publisher: Harper Voyager