Review of The Cyberiad

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The Cyberiad
Stanisław Lem. Translated by Michael Kandel.
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What Does The Score "5.0" Mean? Superb: Masterful. Worth reading twice or more.

A phenomenally inventive collection of stories which is enjoyable by anyone, SF fan or no. While the protagonists are robots who ride spaceships and build poetry machines, and Lem employs endless riffs on scientific and technological diction, the stories in The Cyberiad are structurally myths, or fairy tales. My copy is, quite accurately, subtitled "Fables for the Cybernetic Age."

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