The Futurological Congress
Sunday, 19 March 2006 @ 10:08
From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
by Stanisław Lem (1977)
Ijon Tichy (who has also appeared in many other Lem’s works) is ordered by Professor Tarantoga to attend the Eight World Futurological Congress held in the Costa Rica. Isolated inside the first-rate convention site (The Costa Rica Hilton) are the futurologists preparing their congress, alongside the Plenary Council of Student Protest Veterans, the Convention of Publishers of Liberated Literature, and a Philumenist (matchbook collector) Society meeting, while political troubles are brewing outside.
