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“It’s a Polish science fiction novel from the post-war era, and it’s about the notion of a sentient planet—a version of the Gaia hypothesis. In our current era of the Anthropocene and climate change, there’s a sense that we need to rethink the boundaries between the human and inhuman. So in one way this book is more alive now than it has been at any time since 1961. It asks big questions. Can a sea be conscious? What happens if other planets abide by different laws of physics?” Read more...
Forgotten Classics: The Best B-Side Books
John Plotz, Literary Scholar
