First published 1986
In "One Human Minute," master sci-fi author Stanisław Lem dissects the mundane with surgical precision. What happens in the span of a single minute on Earth? Lem peels back the veneer of normalcy to expose the underlying chaos - the colliding systems, the hidden vulnerabilities, the fragility of human existence. As he plumbs the depths of the quotidian, Lem uncovers the profound, the unsettling, and the downright bizarre. These three essays are a portal into a world that is both familiar and unsettlingly other, challenging our assumptions about the nature of reality itself.
Genres: fiction, science-fiction, literary-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: intimate, thought-provoking, unsettling
Tropes: deconstruction, portal-fantasy
102 pages · Hardcover · Harcourt