The Invincible
**Tarzan, his monkey friend Nkima, and Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors prevent Soviet communists from looting the lost city of Opar. The story also prominently features Tarzan's lion ally Jad-bal-ja.** **Goodreads Member: Frank liked it & rated it 3 of 5 stars:** ''When I was 10 years old, my father gave me three books for Christmas: Treasure Island, The Swiss Family Robinson, and Tarzan and the Golden Lion. At the time, these were all a little advanced for me but when I reached my teen years, I finally read the Tarzan book and was hooked on his adventures. **My older brother also had a copy of Tarzan and the Ant Men which I still consider one of the best in the series.**'' ''In the 80s, I decided to read all of the Tarzan adventures in order but only made it as far as Tarzan at the Earth's Core and then for some reason I stopped reading them. In the mean time, I started collecting Burroughs editions in hard cover and now have a near-complete set of his books. So I kept seeing the books on their shelves and decided to read the next Tarzan adventure, Tarzan the Invincible.'' **Goodreads Member: Qt really liked it & rated it 4 of 5 stars:** I thought this wa
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The heavy cruiser Invincible lands on the desert planet Regis III to find out what destroyed its sister ship Condor. The crew finds the Condor wrecked, the bodies arranged strangely, and across the dunes a slow black cloud that turns out to be a swarm of self-replicating insect-sized machines.
The Invincible was written by Stanislaw Lem and originally published in Polish in 1964. The novel was reissued in a new English translation by Bill Johnston in 2020. Lem is also the author of Solaris and His Master's Voice.
No. The Invincible is a standalone novel, separate from Stanislaw Lem's other works including Solaris and the Cyberiad collection. Each of his major novels is independent.
The Invincible is 192 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Invincible takes most readers 3 to 4 hours to finish.
The Invincible is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.