The cyberiad : fables for the cybernetic age / Stanislaw Lem ; translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel. Illustrated by Daniel Mróz.

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Lem, Stanisław [Browse]
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English
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New York, N.Y. : Seabury Press, 1974.
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295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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    These are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known as “constructors,” who have created marvels for kingdoms. Friends and rivals, they are constantly outdoing and challenging each other to reveal the next great evolution in cybernetics, and the exploits of these brilliant men are nothing short of incredible. From tales of love, in which a robotic prince must woo a robotic princess enchanted by pleasures of true flesh, to epics of battle, in which the heroic constructors must use their considerable wit to outsmart a monarch obsessed with hunting, to examinations of humanity, wherein Trurl and Klapaucius must confront the limits of their skills and the meaning of true perfection, these stories are rich with profound questions, unimaginable marvels, and remarkable feats.
    Contents
    • 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 storytellig machines of King Genius
    • Altruizine
    • From the Cyphroeroticon, or tales of deviations, superfixations and aberrations of the heart
    • Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal.
    ISBN
    • 081649164X
    • 9780816491643
    LCCN
    73006420
    OCLC
    704781
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