305 Porphyry, of Aphrodisias Alexander, and Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust US access only) David, the Invincible: Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca : editio consilio et auctoritate academiae litterarum regiae Borossicae (Berlin : De Gruyter, 2001), also by Sophonias, of Ephesus Michael, Metropolitan of Nicaea Eustratius, Aspasius, of Alexandria Stephanus, Neoplatonist Elias, John Philoponus, the Platonist Olympiodorus, of Cilicia Simplicius, of Tralles Asclepius, Syrianus, Themistius, Hermiae Ammonius, the Platonist Dexippus, ca.Akademie der wissenschaften (page images at HathiTrust US access only) 305 Porphyry, the Platonist Dexippus, Hermiae Ammonius, Themistius, Syrianus, of Tralles Asclepius., of Cilicia Simplicius, John Philoponus, Neoplatonist Elias., of Alexandria Stephanus, Aspasius, metropolitan of Nicaea Eustatius., of Ephesus Michael, Sophonias, of Aphrodisias Alexander, and Berlin K. David, the Invincible: Commentaria in Aristotelem graeca : Edita consilio et auctoritate Academiae litterarum ragiae borussicae.David, the Invincible: Commentaria in Aristotelem graeca / (), also by John Philoponus, the Younger Olympiodorus, Hermiae Ammonius, Themistius, Sophonias, of Ephesus Michael, Metropolitan of Nicaea Eustratius, Aspasius, of Alexandria Stephanus, Neoplatonist Elias, of Cilicia Simplicius, of Tralles Asclepius, Syrianus, of Aphrodisias Alexander, Dexippus (The Platonist), Porphyry, and Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust US access only).The book was written in Polish.David, the Invincible | The Online Books Page The Online Books Page However, I'm going to give the book a free pass on the language and writing style, because the translation was just awful - the phrasing was consistently awkward, and there were definitely examples of the wrong word completely being used - like "Alarmed" instead of "Alerted." A note at the front of the book says that this edition was translated from German. What I also felt was a flaw is that, although this IS a book about Men, there is no acknowledgment anywhere in the book that females even EXIST, which was just weird. I also don't think that, no matter how cooped up a crew was feeling, that they would want to go outside (unprotected) into a totally untested alien environment, knowing that another crew had never returned from the same place. I had a hard time believing, for example, that if manned space flight to other planets was achieved, that technology would be unable to do something like analyze a planet's atmospheric content from within the spaceship, without going outside with no protective gear, holding a manual gadget. but it was still very flawed.Ī lot of it just didn't make sense. However, the second part of the book makes it very clear that much of the idiocy and arrogance of the characters at the beginning was intentional, on the author's part, and to make a point ABOUT man's idiocy and arrogance. An inimical situation makes it very clear that it would be better to just leave, but stubbornness, bravado and machismo mean that they stay. The first part of the book is a Manly Adventure Story about a ship that lands on an alien planet in order to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a previous ship in the region. "I absolutely hated the first half of this book, but it was partially redeemed by the second half. It's fun, but nothing particularly special. These are not significant quibbles, I just mention them to throw some light on the difference in approach between this work and Solaris.Įventually The Invincible becomes a book about what in essence is a man versus nature adventure story, and it explores the motivations and mindsets of the people that crew interstellar spaceships a bit. Such a solution seems to arise from some analytical leaps that strains credulity, and certain aspects of the entities never come into full focus (the main character's immunity, for example). Unlike in Solaris, the other entity isn't presented as truly alien in the sense of being unknowable, instead the other entity at work in The Invincible is eventually "solved" by the crew of experts that come to investigate after the first ship to explore the planet goes silent. This book is also the story of man interacting with an alien presence on a foreign world. Instead it's Lem shooting for enjoyable pulp science fiction and hitting the mark. The Invincible doesn't reach such dizzying heights, but it isn't really trying to. In Solaris Lem used the alien encounter scenario common to science fiction literature as a way to explore the human condition.
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