Lem famously denounced Script error: No such module "Unsubst". When the novel was first published, parts of it were censored by the Communist authorities. The expedition meets a lifeless human ship of "Atlants", which turns out to be an old artificial war satellite of the USA and its NATO allies, carrying still active biological weapons and nuclear warheads, which had accidentally left Earth orbit and got lost in space during the Cold War era.
One of the planets orbiting Alpha Centauri turns out to be inhabited by an advanced civilization. Humanity has colonized all of the Solar System, and is now making its first attempt at interstellar travel.Īboard a vessel called Gaia, 227 men and women leave the Earth for the Alpha Centauri system.Īfter almost eight years of travel, they find signs of organic life on a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, possibly originating on another planet within the Centauri system. The novel is set in the thirty-second century, in a communistic Utopian future.
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