Fiasco is one of the later novels by Stanislaw Lem, and yet another concerning the issues of First Contact. It is also the last time when we meet Pirx the Pilot. The story initially follows Parvis, a young pilot on the Saturn's moon Titan, who despite warnings against that, ventures in his walker into the dangerous region of methane geysers to look for missing people, among them famous veteran pilot Pirx. He fails, and is forced to use the emergency procedure of vitrification.