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The Cyberiad

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SKU:
1335
Condition:
Good - Moderate shelf wear on front and back cover, with chipping, a few minor tears and creases to corners and spine. Tight binding. Age tanning, but all pages are clean and unmarked.
Format:
Paperback, 236 pages
Publisher:
The Seabury Press, Inc., 1974
Edition:
First Avon Paperback Edition, First Printing
With over six million of his books in print worldwide, Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most popular—and most critically acclaimed—science fiction writer of our day. In The Cyberiad he immerses the reader in a future run by and for machines—like those built by Trurl and Klapaucius, the great “cosmic constructors” who are, themselves, robots. The Cyberiad follows their escapades as they attempt to “out-invent” each other at home, or undertake (and often botch completely) gargantuan cybernetic feats in other galaxies: creating laser-eyed beasts, electronic push-button poetry-spouting bards, and machines that can construct anything in the universe…as long as it begins with the letter n. Drawing on fairy tale, folk tale, and mythology—as well as modern philosophical and mathematical thought—Lem has created a brilliant, deeply resonant work of genius. Translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel Illustrated by Daniel Mróz

With over six million of his books in print worldwide, Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most popular—and most critically acclaimed—science fiction writer of our day. In The Cyberiad he immerses the reader in a future run by and for machines—like those built by Trurl and Klapaucius, the great “cosmic constructors” who are, themselves, robots. The Cyberiad follows their escapades as they attempt to “out-invent” each other at home, or undertake (and often botch completely) gargantuan cybernetic feats in other galaxies: creating laser-eyed beasts, electronic push-button poetry-spouting bards, and machines that can construct anything in the universe…as long as it begins with the letter n.

Drawing on fairy tale, folk tale, and mythology—as well as modern philosophical and mathematical thought—Lem has created a brilliant, deeply resonant work of genius.

Translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel

Illustrated by Daniel Mróz

Editorial Reviews

"Lem has created a new genre." —Arthur Koestler

"Lem is capaable of an amazing richiness of image and a great knack for charcterization.  He is wildly comic, he is sardonic, perplexing, insightful." —Thedore Sturgeon

About the Author

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he was a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and the author of numerous works, including Solaris.