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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141394596Number of pages: 304Weight: 224 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
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Stanislaw Lem may be the most famous science fiction writer you've never heard of...(this) collection of stories may go some way to redressing that...The linguistic inventiveness is extraordinary...Lem has created a curious world in which robots and rockets rub shoulders with kings,dragons,witches and piratesA Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age
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