# 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_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4146-799-2
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the exploits of the Trurl and Klapaucius, two ingenious 'constructors'. In their adventures through a strange medieval universe they encounter a machine capable of creating anything that starts with the letter 'N'; kings who oppress their people with parlour games; and PhD pirates who demand ransom in knowledge rather than gold. It is a world where UFOs land silently on lawns at dawn, and where even the stars can be re-arranged for advertising purposes.