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The Cyberiad

  • Stanisław Lem

3.76

21 ratings

OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw Lem is a genius and your minds will be expanded to bursting when you begin this journey into a world where machines are the dominant species. It is hugely entertaining, inventive, witty, and above all, laugh out loud funny. The book concerns two "constructors" - Trurl and Klaupacious who build machines, and who are in fact machines themselves. Find out what happens when Trurl builds the world's stupidest computer, and Klaupacious' machine that can do "anything in N" nearly ends the universe.

Genres

  • Poland in fiction
  • Fiction
  • Polish Science fiction
  • Polish fiction
  • Polish Short stories
  • Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Translations into English
  • Robots
  • Inventors
  • Competition (Psychology)
  • Erzählung
  • Kurzepik
  • Polnisch
  • Fantastyka naukowa polska
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About the author

  • Stanisław Lem

    12 September 1921 - 27 March 2006

    3.99

    137 ratings · 262 works

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    INTERZONA EDITO

    Apr 19, 2021

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    INTERZONA EDITO

    Apr 19, 2021

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    INTERZONA EDITO

    Apr 19, 2021

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    INTERZONA EDITO

    Apr 19, 2021

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StoryBox

Apr 13, 2016

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    Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, [

    Apr 13, 1967

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    Wydawnictwo Literackie

    Dec 06, 2022

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    Denoël

    August 31, 1985

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    Insel

    June 1, 1992

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    Penguin Random House UK

    2020

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    Wydawnictwo Literackie

    2017

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    Wydawnictwo Literackie

    2002

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    Insel, Frankfurt

    January 1, 1983

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    Tra edition

    Alianza Editorial Sa

    June 30, 2005

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    Alianza

    May 1995

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    Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Audible Studios on Brilliance

    May 17, 2016

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2020

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    Futura Publications Limited

    Jan 01, 1977

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    Penguin Classics

    Jun 05, 2014

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    Secker and Warburg

    1975

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    Avon

    June 1976

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    Harvest/HBJ Book

    December 16, 2002

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    1st Harvest/HBJ ed.

    Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

    1985

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    Seabury Press

    1974

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    Wyd. 1.

    Wydawnictwo Literackie

    1965

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    Wyd. 1.

    Literackie

    1967

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    Verba

    1991

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    avon Books

    1976-01-01

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    Avon

    1976

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    Denoël

    1968

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    Wyd. 1.

    Literackie

    1967

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2014

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    Wyd. 4.

    Wydaw. Literackie

    1978

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    [Wyd. 1]

    Wydawn. Literackie

    1965

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    Verba

    1991

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    [Wyd. 3.

    Wydawn. Literackie

    1972

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

    2002

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

    2002

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    New Ed edition

    Mandarin

    November 1990

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    Avon Books

    1976

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    Secker & Warburg

    1975

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    Avon Bard

    1980