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The Cyberiad-Fables for the Cybernetic Age: SSC

✍ Scribed by Stanislaw Lem;Michael Kandel (transl)

Publisher: Mariner Books
Tongue: English
Weight: 216 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0547538510

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✦ Synopsis

"Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines." —The New York Times Book Review
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 a real universe" (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mr—z. Translated by Michael Kandel.

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