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Honestly, I love Lem's ideas and treatment of aliens and this book definitely does not disappoint on that front, but everything else outside of that was just not great, making the book very difficult and tedious to finish. The characters are drawing out every single dialog, everything is always kept so very mysterious, everyone is always confused or unwilling to communicate properly, no-one acts like a good scientist, and the technological capability of the ocean is dubious. The story and its events just did not really add up. 3/5
— Andrej Karpathy
2022-07-20 on goodreads.com
Another genuinly interesting treatment of an interesting alien from Lem. A little too frustrating/tedious to read in all other aspects.
— Andrej Karpathy