Short but thought-provoking. Philosophical, powerful story telling. Discusses automatons and inanimate evolution: this last idea blew my mind. It means, more or less, evolution of mechanical devices/ of self-organising metal systems. (Pseudo) Brains, non sentient mechanical things. The alien in this novel is one of my favourites not because of what it does but because of what it is. Halfway through the book there is a mindblowing conversation between the commander of spaceship The Invincible and a scientist in which the latter explains his theory about the origin of the alien they find on planet Regis III. This was the big revelation of the book to me and there is not much more in terms of twist, climax or another epic revelation until the end. But it didn't matter because the story was so good I couldn't stop reading. Another interesting point to me was the main character's reflection about the need to defeat and conquer. He couldn't understand why they had to fight the aliens and not leave them alone.
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