Fiasko with delivery to Ireland

Stanisław Lem – writer, thinker, futurologist. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages. His mastery in creating distant worlds continues to surprise and astonish each new generation of readers. An expedition from Earth attempts to communicate with the civilisation of the distant planet Quinta. All its efforts, however, prove futile, as the Quintans resist contact with all their might. Lem equipped his astronauts with remarkably ingenious technology, yet it did not help them fulfil humanity's age-old dream of sharing experience with fellow intelligent beings. And so the alien remains – as always in Lem's work – impenetrable, and humans remain wrapped for eternity in their own mythologies. Fiasko, Lem's last novel, at times bitter and pessimistic, sums up the most important themes of his writing.