The Cyberiad (Penguin Science Fiction) (Orbit Books)

by Stanislaw Lem

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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.

  • ISBN10 0436244209
  • ISBN13 9780436244209
  • Publish Date 26 August 1975
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 December 1992
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English