Characters invariably confer, and ask existential questions

Lem’s science fiction writing as also Huxley’s, is essentially a novel of ideas. To create an imagined futuristic situation of an extreme kind, and then let characters introspect. Having come to see the whole world and outside, the characters search themselves within themselves. Characters invariably confer, and ask existential questions (with others and within themselves). Sometimes these questions strike as moral questions thrown at events propelled by desired freedoms. But different science fictions become popular too if not survive which appeal to those popular myths of outsider, nationalism, anticipated fears….