The Cyberiad: tales from the Cybernetic age

✍ Scribed by Lem, Stanislaw

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 199 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: San Diego
• ISBN: 0547538510

✦ Synopsis

How the world was saved -- Trurl's machine -- A good shellacking -- The seven sallies of Trurland Klapaucius. The first sally, or the trap of Garganius -- The first sally (A), or Trurl's electronic bard -- The second sally, or the offer of King Krool -- The third sally, or the dragons of probability -- The fourth sally, or how Trurl build a Femfatalatron to save Prince Pantagoon from the pangs of love, and how later he restored to a Cannonade of babies -- The fifth sally, or the mischief of King Balerion -- The fifth sally (A), or Trurl's prescription -- The sixth sally, or how Trurl and Klapaucius created a demon of the second kind to defeat the pirate Pugg -- The seventh sally, or how Trurl's own perfection led to no good -- Tale of the three storytelling machines of King Genius -- Altruizine, or a true account of how Bonhomius the hermetic hermit tried to bring about happiness, and what came of it -- From the Cyphroeroticon, or tales of deviations, superfixations and aberrations of the heart -- Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal.;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). Translated by Michael Kandel.

✦ Subjects

Fiction