I absolutely love 'Eden', even if Lem himself thought it wasn't among his best work. It's an alien dystopia seen through human eyes. Are the scenarios the expl

I absolutely love 'Eden', even if Lem himself thought it wasn't among his best work. It's an alien dystopia seen through human eyes. Are the scenarios the explorers encounter something "normal" in some sense, or something gone terribly, terribly wrong? And how can the humans judge, coming from outside? The final revelation dispels some of that ambiguity, and what it shows is not pretty. For me, it's among the most unnerving passages in science fiction. Also, it taught me the word "procrustean"...