'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian 'This Room Guaranteed
BOMB-FREE. From the Management' Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent
back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound,
overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a
luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out
of hand). But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution and
hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply, Tichy finds himself shot, frozen and
thawed out in a future beyond anything he could ever have imagined.
'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian 'This Room Guaranteed
BOMB-FREE. From the Management' Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent
back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound,
overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a
luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out
of hand). But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution and
hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply, Tichy finds himself shot, frozen and
thawed out in a future beyond anything he could ever have imagined.
