The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age

Stanisław Lem

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985 - Fiction - 295 pages

Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. "The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe" (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mr--z. Translated by Michael Kandel.

Contents

• How the World Was Saved 31585: 3
• Trurls Machine: 9
• A Good Shellacking: 21

About the author

Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem was born on September 12, 1921. A medical graduate of Cracow University, he is at home both in the sciences and in philosophy, and this broad erudition gives his writings genuine depth. He has published extensively, not only fiction, but also theoretical studies. His books have been translated into 41 languages and sold over 27 million copies. He gained international acclaim for The Cyberiad, a series of short stories, which was first published in 1974. A trend toward increasingly serious philosophical speculation is found in his later works, such as Solaris (1961), which was made into a Soviet film by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade by Steven Soderbergh in 2002. He died on March 27, 2006 in Krakow at the age of 84.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age; Harvest books
• Author: Stanisław Lem
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 18, 2008
• ISBN: 0156235501, 9780156235501
• Length: 295 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction