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Now The Cyberiad completely got me back on board the Stanislaw Lem fan train. It was absolutely hysterical. This is a collection of short stories all about the adventures (or rather misadventures) of 2 (in)famous constructors as they make their way across the universe. (These journeys are called sal...
(Original Review, 1980)Some people’s complaint about "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is reminiscent of a friend's complaint about Stanislaw Lem's "Cyberiad: Tales for a Cybernetic Age". He thought it was just a series of disconnected tales that were "everything that sf is ridiculed as being", ...
The book contains of the following short SF stories by S.Lem.1-How the World was Saved. 2-Trurl’s Machine.3-A Good Shellacking.4-The Seven Sallies of Trurl and Klapaucius.5-Tale of the Three Story Telling Machines of King Genius.6-Altruizine.7-From the Cyphroeroticon.
One of the most brilliant pieces of translation I've ever come across. You can hardly believe that all these wonderful jokes and word-games weren't originally composed in English. I wish I knew some Polish, so that I could compare with the original.The most impressive sequences, which have been wide...
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