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The Cyberiad
  • Published: 10 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141394596
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.99

The Cyberiad

Fables for the Cybernetic Age

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20 Oct 2020
Paperback
10 July 2014
EBook
19 June 2014
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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.
  • Published: 10 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141394596
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Lem was a Polish author best known for his 1961 science fiction novel Solaris. He also wrote several other SF works including Eden (1959) and His Master's Voice (1968). Lem's books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold over 45 million copies. He was awarded numerous honours for his writing, including the City of Kraków's Prize in Literature, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Lem died in 2006, aged 84.
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Praise for The Cyberiad

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