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 Peace on Earth - Stanislaw Lem
Newest Review: ... attempts to monitor their progress fails. Fearing an attack from the moon robots, the Lunar Agency hires Ijon Tichy to ... more  ... perform a spying mission to find out just what the robots are up to. However, when he returns to Earth he finds that many parties are interested in what he knows and that they will do anything to find out the secrets that are stored deep within his brain. The only problem is that the very information that these people want is stored in the right side of his brain and the right side of Ijon Tichy is not willing to give up the information easily.
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Peace on Earth - Stanislaw Lem: Sly, wry and entirely dry (875 words)
by - written on 07/06/04 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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After a reconnaissance mission to the moon goes wrong, Ijon Tichy returns to Earth severely injured. Whilst taking a leak behind a rock in the Sea of Serenity he suffers a remote callotomy and with the two sides of his brain forever severed he returns to Earth to find his right side at odds with the left. As he records his story his left hand has to be tied down to stop it from ripping the paper out of his typewriter. Tichy lives in a world where the Cold War never ended and all nations on Earth are involved in a perpetual battle to out gun their neighbours. With the cost of weapons rising at an ever increasing rate the nations of Earth decide to move the race to the ... Read the complete review
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