The Invincible

Synopsis

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines. In the grand tradition of h. G. Wells and jules verne, stanisław lem's the invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet regis iii, navigator rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines—perhaps the survivors of a “robot war.