'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian' This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE From the Management' Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound overpopulated Costa Rica holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand) But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution & hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply Tichy finds himself shot frozen & thawed out in a future beyond anything he could ever have imagined