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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 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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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 *

The Cyberiad

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 5 June 2014
      ISBN-13 9780141394596
      978-0141394596
      ISBN-10 0141394595
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      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade 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 *

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