Trivia / The Astronauts

• Creator Backlash: Lem disliked this novel.
• Executive Meddling: Pressure from the political elements is the main source of Communism praise in the book.
• Technology Marches On: The spaceship's computer, which has no textual interface at all, instead displaying all its output as wavey graphs without any numbers or words. The operators must specifically learn to read these.