“Good books tell the truth, even when they’re about things that never have been and never will be. They’re truthful in a different way. When they talk about outer space, they make you feel the silence, so unlike the Earthly kind — and the lifelessness. Whatever the adventures, the message is always the same: humans will never feel at home out there.”
— Stanisław Lem, “Pirx’s Tale”
Table of Contents
1. This Little Light
2. Lost But Now
3. The Dark and Desolate Valley
4. Lead Me Home
5. Keep Your Eyes Wide
6. Whirlwinds of Revolt
7. What You Can’t Understand
8. The Fierce Urgency of Now
9. The Gracious Favor
10. Inextricably Bound
11. Undaunted, True, and Brave
12. The Mountain of Despair
13. Loosed the Fateful Lightning
14. They Themselves the Traitor Crew
25. Something Good Has Begun
26. Times Must a Man Look Up
27. Till Earth and Heaven Ring
28. Out on the Edge of Darkness
29. Hand in Hand
30. By the Dim and Flaring Lamps
31. And the Time’s Comin’ Near
32. Take My Hand, Come Along
33. What’s Up There Beyond the Sky
34. Like Going Home
35. The Considerate Judgment of Mankind
36. And Before I’d be a Slave
37. I am Thinking Most of You
38. And I’ve Seen the Promised Land