SOURCE: A review of Peace on Earth, in World Literature Today, Vol. 70, No. 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 205–06.

In the following review, Lewis offers a negative assessment of Peace on Earth.

Fans of Stanisław Lem will enjoy Peace on Earth, but they will not derive from it the sense of wonder that came with The Invincible, Solaris or His Master's Voice. In comparison to those three works, Peace on Earth seems stale, hackneyed, and contrived of outdated scientific insights. Nor does the humor match that of Memoirs Found in a Bathtub or The Cyberiad.

The novel opens with Ijon Tichy struggling to make sense of what happened during a recent mission to the moon which he was chosen by the United Nations to undertake in order to find out whether or not the computerized robot population of the moon has evolved sufficiently to be able to mount an attack upon...