The Cyberiad
by Stanisław Lem
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OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw Lem is a genius and your minds will be expanded to bursting when you begin this journey into a world where machines are the dominant species. It is hugely entertaining, inventive, witty, and above all, laugh out loud funny. The book concerns two "constructors" - Trurl and Klaupacious who build machines, and who are in fact machines themselves. Find out what happens when Trurl builds the world's stupidest computer, and Klaupacious' machine that can do "anything in N" nearly ends the universe.
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Poland in fiction, Fiction, Polish Science fiction, Polish fiction, Polish Short stories, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, science fiction, general, Translations into English, Robots, Inventors, Competition (Psychology), Erzählung, Kurzepik, Polnisch, Fantastyka naukowa polskaPeople
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The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (Penguin Modern Classics)
Jun 05, 2014, Penguin Classics
0141394595 9780141394596
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The cyberiad: fables for the cybernetic age
1985, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English
- 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
0156235501 9780156235501
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The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age
1974, Seabury Press
Hardcover
in English and Polish
081649164X 9780816491643
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"When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so you could easily count them from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were set apart, and the smaller, yellowing types pushed off to the corners as bodies of a lower grade, when there was not a speck of dust to be found in outer space, nor any nebular debris-in those good old days it was the custom for constructors, once they had received their Diploma of Perpetual Omnipotence with distinction, to sally forth ofttimes and bring to distant lands the benefit of their expertise."
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