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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.
Two constructor robots roam the cosmos creating improbable beasts and machines, such as electronic bards and involuted story telling machines which never finish a tale.
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Donald Mitchell
reviewed The Cyberiad on August 17, 2007 The Cyberiad
If you're only going to read one Lem in your life...
...seek medical help. There are several essential Lem books and stories.
And this is one of them. Both of them. Something like that. It's an essential Lem book of essential Lem stories.
The basic outline is simple: two robot inventors (they are robots and they invent robots... whether they invented themselves is indeed an open question) appear, one or the other or both, in some fashion, in a series of stories set in a universe of robots. The inventors--friends, rivals, and each the only one capable of understanding the other's genius--are Nasrudin-like figures, both wise and fools, both creating problems and solving them, meeting common (robot) folk and uncommon (robot) world leaders.
They try to one-up one another, they try to help one another, and through it all they teach by doing and do by teaching. Maybe the comparison to Mullah Nasrudin is more apt than I'd realized.
If Mullah Nasrudin were two space-travelling robot inventors....
Yeah, that's the book.
Read it.
And btw, it's hilarious, it's a quick read, and it's really easy to get ahold of.
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