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Title	:	The Cyberiad
Author	:	Stanisław Lem
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 295 pages
Published	:	December 16th 2002 by Harcourt (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Short Stories. Humor

The Cyberiad

Stanisław Lem

Paperback | Pages: 295 pages

Rating: 4.18 | 9882 Users | 617 Reviews

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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 widely quoted, come from the story where one of the inventors builds a machine that can write a poem to any specification, no matter how bizarre. "A poem about love, treachery, indomitable courage, on the subject of a haircut, and every word to start with the letter S!" says his friend. And within a few seconds, the machine has produced:

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.

The love poem where all the metaphors come from the language of mathematics is nearly as good.

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Original Title:	Cyberiada
ISBN:	0156027593 (ISBN13: 9780156027595)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Trurl, Klapaucjusz
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Translation (1975)

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A peerless collection of stunning fables, bursting with imaginative madness and the most impressive punnilinguistics in sci-fi. The inclusion of this collection in Penguin Classics proves that Lem is one of the most original writers of the last century, not merely under the sci-fi bumbershoot, in the whole of bigbookdom. Also a feat of remarkable translation from Michael Kandel, on a par with the Oulipian masters Gilbert Adair or Barbara Wright.

Read this at least 5 times. Probably the best book (at least in its genre) I've read. Extremely funny and witty. With all the made up words and rhyming poems etc. must have been a nightmare to translators (I read the Finnish translation). I only wish I knew Polish so that I could read this in the original language.

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.The Laws of Thermodynamics: "The Cyberiad Stories" by Stanislaw Lem(Original Review, 1980)Some peoples 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", petty, and demeaning. Then one day I snuck up on him and read him the

Other reviews have acknowledged two critical points Id like to reinforce. 1. This translation is fantastic. Lem makes his money off word play if The Cyberiad is any indicator, and how in the hell someone was able to work that in a polish to English translation is amazing.2. These stories might be best consumed separately, rather than on the run.This is at times a funny book. The story about the machine that makes poetry has a nice satirical spice. The femfatalatron and King Balereon were both

Another masterwork of this brilliant writter.Obviously i have read this work in spanish because this polish collection of tales is almost intranslatable,it is full of fun neologisms of all sort.It is a extremely funny and satiric book,but also serious deep in almost all branches of philosophy,transhumanism and physics .Lem builds a astounding medieval, cibernetic,mechanic world were he develops the adventures of two ciberetic beings ,the builders,Trul and Claupacius.Below this apparently absurd

The Cyberiad is truly a cybernetic Iliad, forged from chromium chronicles, cobalt fables, metallic mythologies, titanium tales, stainless steel stories, platinum parables, magnesium sagas, wrought iron records, copper epics, silicon sagas, lead legends, all-around space-age aluminum alloygories.This is one of the best story collections I have ever read period (comparable in quality to Borge's Ficciones). It's a story cycle, mostly revolving around the strange adventures and mechanical mishaps of

Originally I was just thrilled to find a SF book by an author actually in Poland. But, after I read the book, I was amazed. Still one of the funniest books I have ever read. Two competing robots (Trurl and Klaupacius) who try to out-invent each other, create some of the most wild constructs that anyone could ever imagine.One being the machine Trurl creates that can make anthing that starts with the letter 'N'. Things really get wild when Klaupacius tests the machine by asking it to create