Robot, Adam WisniewskiSnerg
Robot, Adam WisniewskiSnerg
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Robot

Author: Adam Wisniewski-Snerg, Tomasz Mirkowicz

Narrator: Marston York

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2021


Synopsis

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Is BER-66 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers, a slow-motion city on the verge of destruction, and ultimately, the all-powerful Mechanism itself...

Considered to be one of the most important and original Polish science fiction novels of all time but never before translated into English, Adam Wisniewski-Snerg's debut novel is a haunting and mind-bending masterpiece of philosophical enquiry that penetrates deep into the heart of what it means to be human.

© Adam Wisniewski-Snerg 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeme on January 27, 2022

I dont know what the fuck was happening most of the time but I loved it for that tbh.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on November 26, 2021

This was heavy going. An episodic plot with interchangeable characters. Some scenes where the main character experiences time at a hugely accelerated rate were quite interesting (and something Christopher Nolan could make use of)......more

Goodreads review by Jayme on March 08, 2022

What even was this? I'd describe this book as a physics mystery? The start of the novel was very intriguing. There's a great scene where everyone's being shuffled through some sort of mission briefing conveyor belt? I dunno, it was really visually interesting and well told. Like, I really wanted to......more

Goodreads review by Karolina on February 05, 2020

PL/ENG (below) PL Niech mnie ktoś uszczypnie, proszę. Mocno. I jeszcze raz. To jest debiut?! Przewracając kolejne kartki, nie mogłam w to uwierzyć. Oczywiście nasłuchałam się wcześniej od literackich kolegów i koleżanek, że Snerg to, Snerg tamto, jednak generalnie przeważała jedna rada - przeczytaj naj......more

Goodreads review by keskese on August 05, 2016

Niech mnie ktoś uszczypnie, proszę. Mocno. I jeszcze raz. To jest debiut?! Przewracając kolejne kartki, nie mogłam w to uwierzyć. Oczywiście nasłuchałam się wcześniej od literackich kolegów i koleżanek, że Snerg to, Snerg tamto, jednak generalnie przeważała jedna rada - przeczytaj najpierw coś późnie......more


Quotes

Robot's technical proficiency and ontological ambitions could be compared to those of Lem at his best, and its author, like Lem, considered himself less an sf writer than a prose-writing philosopher of metaphysical inclinations. With its powerful vision of a society of slaves controlled and abused by a mysterious Mechanism and a stimulating theory of Superbeings, Robot was almost immediately recognized as an instant classic which catapulted Snerg to the rank of Poland's best sf authors Science Fiction Encyclopedia