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The linked article is a collection of literary analyses of different books. It includes a discussion of Stanisław Lem's "The Invincible," which predicts the idea of artificial life and explores the possibility of different evolutionary pathways for life forms. The article also includes a brief summary of Anton Chekhov's stories as a testament to the role of memory, a quote from C.S. Lewis on William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land," Jorge Luis Borges' inspiration from Giovanni Battista Piranesi's prints, and Andrew Mangham's examination of how science and literature affected understandings of human difference in the 19th century.