Reviewers note the faithful rendering of Lem's original novel by Mikołajczyk in a different media. In 2019, Rafał Mikołajczyk published the comic book Niezwyciężony, ISBN 9788395521409. In his usual grumpy manner Lem commented that "it would probably have been awful, but I did earn a lot". In the late 1960s, Michael Redstone acquired the rights to a film adaptation of the novel, but he failed to find producers.
This idea of an "ultimate weapon system" was finalized by Lem in his fictitious review "Weapon Systems of the Twenty First Century or The Upside-down Evolution". The descriptions are vivid and powerful."
Theodore Sturgeon praised The Invincible as "sf in the grand tradition", saying "The Science is hard. The plot also involves a philosophical dilemma, juxtaposing the values of humanity and the efficiency of mechanical insects. In particular, it is an imaginary experiment to demonstrate that evolution may not necessarily lead to dominance by intellectually superior life forms. The novel turns into an analysis of the relationship between different life domains, and their place in the Universe. Rohan expresses his intention to petition for preservation of the planet's artificial ecosystem, which fascinates him. He gathers some evidence and returns to the ship unharmed, thanks partially to a device that cloaks his brain activity and partially to his calm and nonthreatening behavior. Rohan wanders into canyons covered by metallic "shrubs" and "insects", and finds some of the missing crewmen dead. In the face of defeat and imminent withdrawal of the Invincible, Rohan, the spaceship's first navigator, undertakes a trip into the "enemy area" in search of four crew members who went missing in action – an attempt which he and the Invincible's commander Horpach see as certainly futile, but necessary for moral reasons. The robotic "fauna", dubbed "necrosphere", has become part of the planet's ecology, and would require a disruption on a planetary scale to be destroyed.
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Invincible's crew mounts an escalating series of attacks on the perceived enemy, but eventually recognizes the futility of their efforts. It lacks intelligence and cannot formulate attack strategies proactively. Condor's crew suffered a complete memory erasure as a consequence of attacks from these "clouds". These swarms display complex behavior arising from self-organization and can incapacitate any intelligent threat by a powerful surge of electromagnetic interference. When threatened, they can assemble into huge clouds, travel at a high speed, and even climb to the top of the troposphere. Individually, or in small groups, they are quite harmless and capable of only very simple behavior. The protagonists come to speculate that a kind of evolution must have taken place under the selection pressures of "robot wars", with the only surviving form being swarms of minuscule, insect-like micromachines. During the investigation, the crew finds evidence of a form of quasi-life, born through evolution of autonomous, self-replicating machines, apparently left behind by an alien civilization ship which landed on Regis III a very long time ago. A heavily armed interstellar spacecraft called Invincible lands on the planet Regis III, which seems uninhabited and bleak, to investigate the loss of her sister ship, Condor. Thus begins this heart-warming and reassuring story that helps children clearly see. Even though you can’t see it with your eyes, you can feel it deep in your heart, and know that you are always connected to the ones you love.” “People who love each other are always connected by a very special String, made of love. Here is a warm and delightful lesson teaching young and old that we aren’t ever really alone and reminding children (and adults!) that when we are loved beyond anything we can imagine. Does everybody have an Invisible String? How far does it reach, anyway? Does it ever go away? Read all about it! THE INVISIBLE STRING is a very simple approach to overcoming the fear of loneliness or separation with an imaginative flair that children can easily identify with and remember. The Invisible String reaches from heart to heart.
A story that teaches of the tie that really binds. “What kind of string”? They asked with a puzzled look to which Mom replied, “An Invisible String made of love.” That’s where the story begins. “That’s impossible”, said twins Jeremy & Liza after their Mom told them they’re all connected by this thing called an Invisible String. The Invisible String is reaching all over the World!
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