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The Cyberiad
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The Cyberiad

Fables for the Cybernetic Age
BookPaperback
Ranking1199930inBelletristik
CHF19.90

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A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations

'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...'

Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar and morose civilizations. The Cyberiad is oddly reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Phantom Tollbooth and Alice in Wonderland. Charming, mind-bending and anarchic, it is perhaps Lem's greatest work. This edition includes all of Daniel Mroz's hallucinatory original illustrations.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-139459-6
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date05/06/2014
SeriesPenguin Modern Classics
Pages304 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 17 mm
Weight224 g
Illustrations14
Article no.16870017
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.15909708
Product groupBelletristik
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Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world. He is credited with anticipating in his writing artificial reality, e-books and nano-technology. His most famous works include The Cyberiad, Mortal Engines, The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Tales of Pirx the Pilot and Solaris.