The Cyberiad
Pocketbok. Avon . 1976.
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"LEM HAS CREATED A NEW GENRE.'
Arthur Koestler
With over six million of his books in print worldwide, Stanistaw Lem is perhaps the most popular - and most critically acclaimed - science fiction writer of our day.
In THE CYBERIAD he immerses the reader in a future run by and for machines - like those built by trurl and Klapaucius, the great "cosmic constructors" who are, themselves, robots. THE CYBERIAD follows their escapades as they attempt to "out-invent" each other at home, or undertake (and often botch completely) gargantuan cybernetic feats in other galaries: creating laser-eyed beasts, electronic push-button poetry-spout-ing bards, and machines that car construct anything in the universe...as long as it begins with the letter n.
Drawing on fairy taie, folk tale, and mythology - as well as modern philosophical and mathematical thought - Lem has created a brilliant, deeply resonant work of genius.
"LEM IS CAPABLE OF AN AMAZING
RICHNESS OF IMAGE
and a great knack for characterization. He is wildly
comic, he is sardonic, perplering, insightfal!"
THEODORE STURGEON, in The New York Times.
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