LEM Stanislaw - Investigation. Warsaw 1959. ed. of the Ministry of Defense. 16d, pp. 211, [1]. broch.

LEM Stanislaw - Investigation. Warsaw 1959. ed. of the Ministry of Defense. 16d, pp. 211, [1]. broch.
Wraps lightly rubbed, otherwise good condition. Edition I. Cover by Antoni Boratyński. The novel, "by its title suggesting a detective novel, only at the starting point resembles a classic detective romance. Further parts of the text convince the reader that he is dealing with an originally posed mystery of the science-fiction type [...] for the first time in a Polish science fiction novel there appears the motif of doubt in the possibilities of science, which from now on will run through numerous texts by Lem and his imitators, bringing to literature a note of caution against overconfidence in knowledge" (Smuszkiewicz 238-239).