![]() ![]() ![]() It is held at the Costa Rica Hilton in Nounas, which is 164 stories tall. The conference is set to focus on the world's overpopulation crisis and ways of dealing with it. Ijon Tichy is sent to the Eighth World Futurological Congress in Costa Rica by professor Tarantoga. The main part of the book follows Ijon's adventures in the future world - a world where everyone takes hallucinogenic drugs, and hallucinations have replaced reality. ![]() Finally, he believes that he falls asleep and wakes up many years later. ![]() Ijon and a few others escape to the safety of a sewer beneath the Hilton where the congress was being held, and in the sewer he goes through a series of hallucinations and false awakenings, which cause him to be confused about whether or not what's happening around him is real. A riot breaks out, and the hero, Ijon Tichy, is hit by various psychoactive drugs that were put into the drinking water supply lines by the government to pacify the riots. The book opens at the eponymous congress. The book is Lem's take on the science fictional trope of an apparently Utopian future that turns out to be an illusion. It details the exploits of the hero of a number of his stories, Ijon Tichy, as he visits the Eighth World Futurological Congress at a Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica. The Futurological Congress ( Polish: Kongres futurologiczny) is a 1971 black humour science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem. ![]()
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