FIASCO

Fiasco

Fiasco is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, first published in a German translation in 1986. The book, published in Poland the following year, is a further elaboration of Lem's scepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with alien civilizations is cultural, rather than spatial, distance. The failure to communicate with an alien civilization is the main theme of the book. It was translated into English by Michael Kandel, and was nominated for Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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fiasco

Noun

  1. A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
  2. A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.


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