Description
BER-66 awakens in a strange underground world with only one certainty: his controllers, known as “the Mechanism,” insist he is a living machine—programmed to observe and report on the inhabitants around him. As he moves deeper through tunnels and locked rooms, he encounters unsettling doubles, a city frozen in time, and clues that begin to blur the line between what he was made to be and what he might actually be. Blending mystery with philosophical inquiry, this landmark work asks what it means to be human, how reality is constructed, and whether identity can be reduced to code. With its eerie atmosphere and thought-provoking, idea-driven storytelling, this novel stands as one of the most significant Polish science fiction classics, inviting readers to question the foundations of perception itself.
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paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2021
ISBN: 9780241485118
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First Published
2021
Language
pol
Translation
From: pol
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