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The Invincible

By: Stanisław Lem
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
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A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.

In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines—perhaps the survivors of a “robot war.” Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: what course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge? In The Invincible, Lem has his characters confront the inexplicable and the bizarre: the problem that lies just beyond analytical reach.

This audiobook is expressively read by Nick Sullivan with audio engineering by Mike Thal. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2020 Tomasz Lem (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration
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Old-school hard sci-fi from the 60s–70s era. Packed with scientific and technical detail, and built on a solid, thoughtful plot. If you love classic hard science fiction, this one is definitely worth reading or listening to. The narrator does a great job, too.

Very solid

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for the love of God, don’t read the intro it spoils the plot. otherwise great fun

be warned

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Great SciFi story but I'm so glad I heard it first via a different outlet. I would have been pissed after listening to the foreward of this audiobook: it ruins the entire mystery of what's going on in order to gloat about how advanced the futuristic ideas presented for this novel's time were. Granted, give credit where credit is due but not at the cost of spoiling the whole damn plot--save it for the end.

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There are people in this book, but not characters. They are 2-D cutouts with zero complexity or motivation. It’s all exposition. This happened, then this happened… Overall I’d say this is an outline for a novel. It feels very underbaked and lacks a compelling narrative or any characters to care about.

Devoid of characters

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