The greatest of the works of Stanislav Lem, which became a classic not only of fiction, but of the entire world prose of the 20th century. A unique novel in which a conditionally fantastic plot is nothing more than a frame for deep and subtle philosophical and ethical studies of the "eternal questions" of God, Being, responsibility, and the creative and destructive power of love. The novel “Edem” is one of the most striking works of Stanislav Lem, combining the features of a rigid and dystopian NF . The work is complex, multifaceted and infinitely talented. The work, and to this day has not lost either its relevance or the power of its impact on the reader. Cruiser "Invincible" makes a landing on the desert and nothing planet Reris III Life exists only in the ocean, for unknown reasons people never got to land ... The purpose of the expedition is to clarify the circumstances of the disappearance of the starship a year ago on this planet, which did not come into contact a few hours after landing The expedition discovers that there is a special life on the planet, born of the evolution of alien machines, millions of years ago by the will of fate found on this planet.