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The protagonist of the cycle "From the Memoirs of Ion the Silent" by Polish science fiction writer S. Lem is the captain of an interstellar ship, a space wolf, and at the same time a renowned scientist and a famous researcher. Ion the Pacific has a surprisingly interesting and adventurous life. He is well acquainted with a number of brilliant inventors, including Corcoran, who modelled the entire world on a computer, Decantor, who managed to free human consciousness, condemning it to painful immortality, and Zazul, the first inventor of a time machine. Ion the Silent visits a psychiatric clinic for robots. He witnesses the rebellion of an artificial intelligence trying to free itself from human influence. In the end, there are plenty of adventures on the space highways, and the hero of this series seems to attract them like a magnet.