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  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241467992
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

The Cyberiad

Fables for the Cybernetic Age




A much-loved classic from a giant of European science fiction

Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century.
The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the exploits of the Trurl and Klapaucius, two ingenious 'constructors'. In their adventures through a strange medieval universe they encounter a machine capable of creating anything that starts with the letter 'N'; kings who oppress their people with parlour games; and PhD pirates who demand ransom in knowledge rather than gold. It is a world where UFOs land silently on lawns at dawn, and where even the stars can be re-arranged for advertising purposes.

  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241467992
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for The Cyberiad

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

A giant of 20th-century science fiction

Guardian
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