THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS is one of the most daringly told stories about Ijon Tichy.  Tichy is invited to a futorological convention in a Latin America republic shaken by revolution.  Eventually Tichy is transferred to a world where in a grotesque convolution both the utopian and anti-utopian visions of the future have been realized.  Mockery of futorology --- as always with Lem --- is accompanied by serious reflection about human disposition for discord with reality.