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Return From The Stars
by Stanislaw Lem
Translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson
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Space wasn't half so scary, half so strange, or even half so alien, as what Hal Bregg
returned to. He had been away from Planet Earth for ten years space-time. But that was 127 years
back home and a lot of things had changed. Sex. Money. Transit. Violence. There's no more
violence. Everyone gets it "betrizated" out of them in childhood. And that's just the beginning. . .
Naturally, Hal refuses to be acclimated by the "Adapt" people. He prefers to figure it out
all by himself, be a stranger in a strange land, draw his own conclusions. And he does.

"In the unlikely event that a science-fiction writer is deemed worthy of a Nobel Prize in the near
future, the most likely candidate would be a Pole named Stanislaw Lem," states THE NEW
YORK TIMES. And FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION writes, "One of the world's finest
writers. . . Lem has accomplished the difficult illusion of showing us a future world which may
be distasteful to us, but which may be seen as quite legitimate and even desirable by its own
people, and by us, if we were to change certain ways of seeing and understanding."



Return from the Stars
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Copyright ┬й 1961 by Stanislaw Lem
English translation Copyright ┬й 1980 by Stanislaw Lem
Published by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-3358
ISBN: 0-380-58578-2

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First Bard Printing, May, 1982

Printed in the U. S. A.

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