Stanislaw Lem: Difference between revisions

* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: The HPLD civilization (meaning ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Highest Possible Level of Development]]'') encountered by Klapaucius in ''[[The Cyberiad]]''.

* [[Time Travel]]: Ijon Tichy gets handed the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] several times, the most amusing instance probably being the episode when Tichy, [[Temporal Paradox|caught in a time loop]], is [[Amusing Injuries|banged on the head with a saucepan]] wielded by a [[My Future Self and Me|future version of himself]] ([[Foregone Conclusion|then goes on to bang a saucepan on the head of a past version of himself]]). For ''a week''.

** A much darker example has a hapless inventor test his prototype time machine in Tichy's living room by a casual trip 50 years into the future - realizing too late that the trip actually ''will'' take him 50 years. [[Buried Alive|And the machine has no emergency brake.]]

* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: Ijon Tichy experiences this in ''[[The Futurological Congress]]'' after he and his colleagues are dosed with powerful hallucinogenic drugs by a terrorist group.