The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age
Stanisław Lem
This is the 1st Avon printing. Cover Artist: Daniel Mroz Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. “The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe” (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mr—z. Translated by Michael Kandel.
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If you put Dr. Seuss, Lewis Carrol and Einstien in one body, this is the book they'd write.
I've never even imagined such brilliant nonsense. Seriously. It's also an intelligence test (and something of an endurance one as well) because hidden in the apparent gibberish are some of the funniest parts of the text.
Lem uses his Cosmic knowledge and a great, cybernetic sense of humor to poke pun at, well, just about everything. But pay attention--or you just might miss it. (maybe brush up on your phony latin while you're at it)
He takes a jab at everything from government, to courtship rituals, bureaucracy, the post office, commercialism, consumerism, voyeurism...you name it. It's in there. Can you find it?
I've never had so much fun being so challenged. Pick it up.
I feel somehow larger for having read it.
:-)
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