Cyberiad - Softcover

Lem, Stanislaw

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156027593 ISBN 13: 9780156027595

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2002

Synopsis

A brilliantly crafted collection of stories from celebrated science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem

 

Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. Over the course of their adventures in The Cyberiad, they travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their unsuspecting employers. Playfully written, and ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work.

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Review:

Stanislaw Lem may be the most famous science fiction writer you've never heard of ... [this] collection of stories may go some way to redressing that ... The linguistic inventiveness is extraordinary ... Lem has created a curious world in which robots and rockets rub shoulders with kings, dragons, witches and pirates (Independent on Sunday)

A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age (New York Times)

About the Author:

Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he is a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and he is the author of numerous works, including Solaris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0156027593
• ISBN 13: 9780156027595
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312