Eden (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780156278065)

A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger: a desert plain exuding acrid vapors, a greenish tinge at the horizon, a gray seven-foot tree that hisses and withdraws into the ground when touched, and thickets of vegetation like hanging spiders.

In a labyrinth of plant-shaped buildings are dead ends, passage-ways, domes, vaulted ceilings, and giant statues. And everywhere there are images of death: mass graves, naked bodies in ditches and wells, a beehive structure filled with clusters of giant eggs -- a skeleton within each egg.

The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth -- cruel precisely because it is so human.

Author: Stanislaw Lem
ISBN-10: 0156278065
ISBN-13: 9780156278065
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Language: English
Published: 10/19/1991
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.29w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/06/1991