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"The Perfect Vacuum" contains 16 articles: 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? Turning to "New Theory of Cosmological Evolution", it turns out that the universe is just a game! "Lyme Rhapsody" contains 5 articles: After serving the government for decades, the military computer "Mud Man" rebelled. He once served as the supreme commander, commanding transnational military operations. Now he publicly humiliates members of Congress and refuses to cooperate with the military. Then, there was silence. The "Clay Man" spoke again, but facing all mankind, he said shocking words. Is human intelligence a trap? Is human civilization a gamble? Is human evolution a series of mistakes? ...If this is the truth of evolution, wouldn't the so-called "human beings are advanced creatures" become a ridiculous joke? Turn to "Fourteen Clay Figures" and you'll get a fever on your face after reading just 28 words!

Solaris is a planet orbiting a binary star with a surface covered in a gelatinous ocean. According to existing human knowledge, the orbit of such a planet should be unstable. But just a dozen years later, people discovered that the orbit of Solaris did not show the expected changes. This has stimulated mankind's endless interest in this planet. Psychologist Kelvin landed on Solaris. What greeted him was not the warm welcome of his companions, but a chaotic space station, crazy scientific researchers and a solemn dark atmosphere. He tried to figure out what happened, until he bumped into his wife who had been dead for ten years amidst the confusion...

"Memoirs of a Space Traveler" contains a series of short stories by Stanislaw Lem, the master of Polish science fiction. It takes the adventures of space traveler Ion Teach, a frequent visitor of Lem's works, as the theme. Through the first-person perspective of the protagonist, it tells the story of Teach's strange and interesting adventures, supplementing the voyage stories in "Star Trek Diary" and adding some new adventures.

"Star Trek Diaries" takes the adventures of space traveler Ion Teach, a frequent guest in Lem's novels, as its theme. Through the twelve diaries of the protagonist recording his own adventures, it brings readers many highly original and prophetic whimsical ideas. In these chapters, in addition to Lem's consistent reflections on human civilization and artificial intelligence ("The Eighth Voyage" and "The Eleventh Voyage"), there are also clever historical parodies ("The Twentieth Voyage"), poignant political allegories ("The Thirteenth Voyage"), and deep philosophical speculations ("The Twenty-first Voyage").