It was one of the first novels to explore the ideas of microrobots, smartdust, artificial swarm intelligence, and "necroevolution" (a term suggested by Lem for the evolution of non-living matter).Ī heavily armed interstellar spacecraft called Invincible lands on the planet Regis III, which seems uninhabited and bleak, to investigate the loss of her sister ship, Condor. A direct translation into English from Polish, by Bill Johnston, was published in 2006.
A translation into German was published in 1967 an English translation by Wendayne Ackerman, based on the German one, was published in 1973. The Invincible originally appeared as the title story in Lem's collection Niezwyciężony i inne opowiadania (" The Invincible and Other Stories"). The Invincible ( Polish: Niezwyciężony) is a hard science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem, published in 1964.
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