The Futurological Congress

The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia.  “ Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem. ” — The Paris Review   Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Polish author Stanislaw Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress in Costa Rica to discuss the overpopulation problem. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot a