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The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age
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The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age

Stanislaw Lem
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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.

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 and 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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
10 July 2014
Pages
304
ISBN
9780141394596

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.

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 and 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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
10 July 2014
Pages
304
ISBN
9780141394596

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