# The Futurological Congress

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- Book: [The Futurological Congress](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanislaw-lem/the-futurological-congress) ([The Futurological Congress.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanislaw-lem/the-futurological-congress.md))
- Authors: [Stanislas Lem](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanislaw-lem)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4131-279-7
- Published: 2017-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management". Both gruesome and very funny, The Futurological Congress is the story of an ill-fated gathering of scientists who meet in a vast luxury hotel in the smog-bound, chronically over-populated Costa Rica of the future. Caught up in a revolution, the congress ends in a shambles as the authorities try to quell discontent by pouring hallucinogenic drugs into the water-supply. The beleaguered hero, Ijon Tichy (well-known to readers of Lem's The Star Diaries ) is shot, frozen and thawed out years later, to find the Earth he had known changed in entirely unexpected ways.