The Cyberiad

Name: The Cyberiad
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141394596
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Fables for the Cybernetic Age

By Stanislaw Lem

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem is a whimsical and inventive collection of interconnected tales featuring two brilliant constructors, Trurl and Klapaucius. In this imaginative realm, they undertake various surreal and absurd adventures, often revolving around their advanced creations and the complexities of artificial intelligence. The book explores themes of humanity, logic, and absurdity with a touch of humour and philosophical insights woven through imaginative science fiction landscapes.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate whimsical and philosophical storytelling set in a universe where robots have human-like emotions and intellects. It offers a unique blend of science fiction and fairy tale elements, filled with humour, satire, and deep reflections on technology and humanity. Perfect for readers who enjoy clever language play and imaginative plots.

The Cyberiad

'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...' Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar and morose civilizations.

In these fantastical short stories, Stanislaw Lem rewrites the laws of reality, space and language itself to take us on an anarchic and darkly comic journey through a newly imagined universe.

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A charming, mind-bending, and anarchic book of imagined civilizations.

'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...'

Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors'—they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power, visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar, and morose civilizations.

The Cyberiad is oddly reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Phantom Tollbooth, and Alice in Wonderland. Charming, mind-bending, and anarchic, it is perhaps Lem's greatest work. This edition includes all of Daniel Mroz's hallucinatory original illustrations.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem has been praised for its extraordinary linguistic inventiveness and the unique blend of science fiction elements with traditional storytelling motifs. The book's collection of stories introduces a world where robots, kings, and mythical creatures coexist, leading to comparisons with the innovative style of Jorge Luis Borges.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141394596

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 June 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Illustration: 14

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 224g

Pages: 304

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Fiction General Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction Series: Penguin Modern Classics Stanislaw Lem

About the Author

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world. He is credited with anticipating in his writing artificial reality, e-books and nano-technology. His most famous works include Solaris, Tales of Pirx the Pilot, the Summa Technologiae and The Futurological Congress.