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  <title><![CDATA[Peace on Earth]]></title>
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  <default_description>Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can&amp;#8217;t remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won&amp;#8217;t tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides. Translated by Elinor Ford with Michael Kandel.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1986</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stanisław Lem]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 22 15:58:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 22 16:09:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a humorous novel by Lem that I read a number of years ago. I believe that it was one of his last works of fiction before he passed away (?) I recall that a good portion of the book included a scathing indictment of SDI/'star wars', i.e., the futility and insanity of building weapons systems ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72160061">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lem's story of the arms race crossed with artificial intelligence is a wry, witty, imaginative page-turner that brings us from a futuristic earth to the surface of the moon, where fantastical robots baffle the narrator with their technological innovations. The characters aren't very likable but they...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63623605">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 10:19:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[just finished it. i'm not a big admirer of sci-fi literature, but what i like in works of Lem that they are so close to the reality and you almost can see our not far future. he basically predicts events and technologies...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely boring. I had to stop reading it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny, fulfilling, &amp; imaginative!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun and fast; not as good as Solaris but still pretty entertaining.]]></body>
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    <review id="28310852">
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Stanislaw Lem's work, but if you're not accustomed to it, parts of this book may seem a bit odd.  This may be my favorite of his books I've read so far, about the future of war, and the mystery of what is happening on the moon, and one man's right brain trying to talk to his left brain, after...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28310852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For an author that was billed as &quot;The Russian Kurt Vonnegut,&quot; Lem creates a paranoid future world that is far more antagonistic and less resigned than anything Vonnegut produced. <br/><br/>The plot recklessly plows through genres, blending space adventure, cold war spy thriller, and surr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22242205">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 12 08:40:26 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most clever novels I've read in a while. I highly recommend it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So imaginative.  This book got me hooked on Lem.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[brilliant intellectual sci fi adventure]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nanobot armies on the moon!]]></body>
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