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...thus tumbled out of a time warp seems entirely appropriate to its contents. More so, in fact, than the rather misleading title. Lem is not concerned here with rockets or star treks; only two stories take Ijon Tichy, the peripatetic hero and chronicler of The Star Diaries, away from planet Earth. The space that is traveled is chiefly cranial; vast internal distances are covered by leaps of imagination...
Nuclear weapons must not be stationed or built in Europe or anywhere on this planet. The human species does not have the right to doom the rest of the earth's inhabitants to destruction. No political or moral ends can be achieved through nuclear arms...
Voyager II, for showing us that this planet is only a small piece of glass in a cosmic lamp...
Even leaving aside the nuclear Caliban, the future will have to be built by elaborately constructive conversations. The Third World's claims upon the First World's wealth, the rising global sense of entitlement, the abrasions of change on a crowded planet-all demand a high order of bargaining intelligence. Social solutions require space and resources (Go West! Enlarge the pie!) For many disputes and angers and injustices today, there are no solutions, only settlements...
...attended by 200,000 people on 150 college campuses. Two thousand gathered for panel discussions and workshops at Harvard. They heard people like arms negotiator Paul Warnke and scientist George Kistiakowsky explain our moral responsibility to prevent at all costs a war that could make large portions of this planet uninhabitable...