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The Cyberiad

By Stanislaw Lem

(15)

| Paperback | 9780156027595

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Book Description

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 Continue

2 Reviews

Lem writes some conceptually interesting science-fiction but this collection of short stories though well written is too monotonous.
I'd skip everything except the start and the end. The rest is just repetitions of the same themes, motifs and childish wordplay.

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alper said on Jan 22, 2009 | Add your feedback

Forget Andersen, these fables will make you laugh, cry and think at the same time. Even if they speak of distant planets, robots and realms there's more than science-fiction in them, as in many other Lem's works.
Not to be missed.
I didn't give them four stars only because from time to ti ... (continue)

Forget Andersen, these fables will make you laugh, cry and think at the same time. Even if they speak of distant planets, robots and realms there's more than science-fiction in them, as in many other Lem's works.
Not to be missed.
I didn't give them four stars only because from time to time I needed to skip the complicated language of the constructors which, being a paleface, I was not evolved enough to appreciate.

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Alced0atthis said on Jul 27, 2008 | Add your feedback