Peace on Earth (1987): Using telerobotics to check in on a swarm robot uprising on the Moon

Recommendation: Read this classic hard sci-fi novel and expand your horizons about robots, teleoperation, and swarms. Stanislaw Lem was one of the most read science fiction authors in the world in his day, especially the 70s and 80s, though not in America because there were rarely translations from his native Polish to English. Lem famously did not like American science fiction, with a very few exceptions. One being Philip K. Dick- and it is no wonder since Lem's 1987 novel Peace on Earth shares many of the same themes that Dick covered: militarization of robots, people losing their memory or not being what they seem, and government conspiracies. In some ways Peace on Earth is like the longer, more detailed, and, actually, *better* version of Dick's 1953 short story Second Variety (which was basis for the Peter Weller movie Screamers). Peace on Earth has a sort of a Battlestar Galatica (reboot) backstory.