Invincible, The

Name: Invincible, The
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Stanislaw Lem
ISBN: 9798349121449

Author: Stanislaw Lem

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Published: 04/21/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanis?aw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines—perhaps the survivors of a “robot war.” Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: what course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge? In The Invincible, Lem has his characters confront the inexplicable and the bizarre: the problem that lies just beyond analytical reach.This audiobook is expressively read by Nick Sullivan with audio engineering by Mike Thal. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

About Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. His books have been translated into forty-one languages and have sold over twenty-seven million copies. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he is a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and he is the author of numerous works, including Solaris, The Cyberiad, and His Master's Voice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on April 18, 2021

It´s important to know one´s sci-fi tropes on rescue and search missions with seemingly invincible human spaceships. It could help to avoid foreseeable debacles. Some of the most fascinating sci-fi plot devices are united to one of Lem´s more action and tech focused than philosophical and funny nove......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on August 10, 2013

This science fiction tale by Stanislaw Lem is easily missed or dismissed as just a space romp, but it is much more than that. A crew land their gigantic, overbuilt and overpowered "Invincible" starship on a planet, trying to find out what happened to the previous starship that landed here. Soon they......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 17, 2021

This is a very surprising classic SF tale that reads as if it had been informed by years of modern SF including not only a standard planetary expedition, but swarm-intelligence, nanobots -- with an almost Stargate feel -- while being utterly serious and thoughtful about all the kinds of alien life t......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on March 11, 2018

The Invicible: Early classic encounter with a swarm intelligence Originally posted at Fantasy Literature Stanislaw Lem was a Polish SF author, one of the most famous and successful writers outside the English language world, selling over 45 million copies in 40+ languages over five decades from the 19......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on June 07, 2019

"How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed in space? Do we need to travel everywhere, bringing destructive power on our ships, so as to smash anything that runs counter to our understanding?" Fascinating, chilling and totally original first con......more