One Human Minute
Contains three essays—"One Human Minute," "The Upside-Down Revolution ," and "The World as Cataclysm"—from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.
Contains three essays—"One Human Minute," "The Upside-Down Revolution ," and "The World as Cataclysm"—from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156687959 (015668795X)
Publish date: November 24th 1986
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 120
Edition language: English
“Every minute, 34.2 million men and women copulate. Only 5.7 percent of all intercourse results in fertilization, but the combined ejaculate, at a volume of forty-five thousand litters a minute, contains 1,990 billion (with deviations in the last decimal place) living spermatozoa. The same number of...
This volume had 3 essays, each with an interesting concept.One Human Minute: Lem has styled this piece as a book review...of a book that hasn't been written. One Human Minute is apparently a Guinness Book of World Records that is completely mundane, yet also amped up on steroids. Imagine a book ...
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