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Ijon Tichy is sent to the 8th World Futurological Congress by Prof Tarantoga. The conference focuses on overpopulation. It’s held at the 164 storey Costa Rica Hilton in Nounas. Absurdities abound with the Hilton’s guaranteed Bomb-free rooms & the extravagance of the suite, including a palm grove & an ’all-girl orchestra play[ing] Bach while performing a cleverly choreographed striptease’. The conference is absurd. Papers are too numerous to allow full presentations. They’re distributed & speakers call out paragraph numbers of the salient points. Tichy drinks tap water & an hallucinogenic trip begins. Notably, it never becomes more or less absurd than the glimpse of reality presented at the outset. Next day he learns the government has drugged the water supply with Love Thy Neighbor, a drug causing helpless benevolence. Events spiral out of control at the Hilton, which is already so chaotic that charred bombing victims are covered with tarps while guests do business. The government bombs the hotel. Tichy escapes to sewers where rats walk on hind legs. He’s evacuated by the military, but the helicopter crashes. He awakes in hospital & finds his brain has been transplanted into an att

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Author

Lem, Stanisław; Kandel, Michael

Publisher

Seabury Press/Continuum

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816492220

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Children'S

Rating

4.21 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14