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 „The Invincible” is a tailor-made screenplay for a great battle film telling the story of the clash of Earthly Astronauts with a spontaneously created population of microautomata destroying all intelligence. But it is mechanical devices – also those created by man – that are programmed for a reflexive fight until self destruction. Only beings that reason can understand the strangeness and free themselves from the fatalism of destruction.
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 The Invincible is a quite well written "narrative machine" based on a fictitious problem. Rohan is confronted with a strange world where he is surrounded by "dead machines". This is a very realistic novel, perhaps a bit more "modest" than Solaris. |
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 The Invincible is an elegant, tragically beautiful story filled with technology and strangeness - all things a reader might expect from a novel by Pould Anderson or Andre Norton at their best. But when the story reaches its logical development, when we have learned everything we can about what has been happening to the starship Invicible's crew, and what has happened to the previous expedition to Regis III, a planet where evolution has taken a mechanical-cybernetic direction, then Lem continues to climb, making painfully real to the reader the sight of humankind and its values confronted with an alien, mechanical system.
George Zebrowski, The Magazie of Fantasy and Science Fiction |
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A Look Inside The Invincible |
 The Invincible moved across the outermost quadrant of the Lyre Constellation. The heavy cruiser was propelled through space by photon drive. It was the largest ship at the disposal of the space fleet based in this section of the universe.
The ship's complement numbered eighty-three men, presently asleep inside the hibernation tunnel. The flight distance was sufficiently short for it not to have been necessary to resort to full hibernation; the men were simply kept in deep sleep, body temperature regulated so as never to fall below 50 degrees F. Within the cruiser's control centre only the automats carried on their work.
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