![]() ![]() Eventually they come into conflict with a vehicle's pilot, who is a doubler. ![]() The next day the expedition begins to come into contact with the local civilization, and their strange, wheel-like vehicles. They name these large creatures, with small torsos retractable into their large bodies, doublers (a translation of Lem's neologism dubelt, to mean "double-bodied"). At the crash site they find a local sentient alien has entered their vessel. There they find a constant cycle of materials being produced and then destroyed and recycled. After escaping their wrecked ship they set out to explore the planet, first traveling through an unsettling wilderness and coming upon an abandoned automated factory. It was first published in English in 1989 ( ISBN 0-15-127580-7).Ī starship crew-Captain (in the original, Coordinator), Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist and Cyberneticist (robotics expert)-crash land on an alien world they call Eden. It was first published in 1958 in issues 211-271 of the newspaper Trybuna Robotnicza. Eden is a 1958 social science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. ![]()
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