# The Cyberiad

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- Book: [The Cyberiad](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanislaw-lem/the-cyberiad) ([The Cyberiad.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanislaw-lem/the-cyberiad.md))
- Authors: [Stanislas Lem](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanislaw-lem)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4139-460-2
- Published: 2014-06-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.