![]() ![]() But as the crew unlocks the secrets of this twisted society, the most haunting fact they must face is how similar it is to their own. Something is wrong with the inhabitants of Eden. And everywhere there are images of death: mass graves, bodies in ditches and wells, clusters of egglike structures filled with skeletons. ![]() In a labyrinth of plant-shaped buildings are dead ends, passageways, domes, vaulted ceilings, and giant statues. But it is the signs of humanity that are most puzzling. The landscape is bizarre, hosting acrid deserts, hissing trees, and thick spiderlike vegetation. Six explorers-the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticist-crash land on a beautiful but strange planet, fourth from another sun. From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates “a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad” ( Kirkus Reviews). ![]()
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