Perfect Vacuum

Name: Perfect Vacuum
Author: Written by Stanislaw Lem; Translated by Zhao Gang and Sun Weifeng

完美的真空

by Written by Stanislaw Lem; Translated by Zhao Gang and Sun Weifeng (斯塔尼斯瓦夫·莱姆著；赵刚孙伟峰译)

Status: Completed
Source: Fanqie

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8.5Score

20Chapters

Synopsis

Why haven't we discovered aliens yet? Because we were discovered long ago. Revealing a more profound cosmic game 40 years earlier than "The Three-Body Problem"! Humanity has been looking up at the stars alone. Among the 250 billion stars, we have never found an alien. Because they have been watching us from the dark. The universe is a huge chessboard, and the earth is just a chess piece. As players, advanced civilizations took their seats early to monitor the silent universe. Why must the universe be silent? Why are we weak still alive? Lem is known as the "Borges of science fiction". He wrote 16 book reviews of non-existent books, using absurd and ironic jokes to solve the real problem of human beings - existence at the boundary of science fiction and philosophy. Open "Perfect Vacuum", become an idiot, a philosopher, a madman, and a God, and play a brain-burning thinking game!

Reader comments

1971 Was also a science fiction work at the end of the Golden Age, which influenced many subsequent works. (Is it common knowledge that "New Theory of the Evolution of the Universe" influenced "The Three-Body Problem"?) It is recommended to put it in a physical book for more comfortable layout.
10 likes2y ago
The author's imagination is so rich that those virtual book reviews are simply adventures in thinking. I especially like the discussion of human beings and alien civilizations in the book. It feels like an exciting intellectual game. And, seeing the photo of Lem blowing bubbles with his granddaughter, I really feel his sunshine and cheerfulness! This book is well worth reading!
4 likes2y ago
Great, imaginative
1y ago

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