
The Cyberiad
Fables for the Cybernetic Age
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Narrated by:
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Scott Aiello
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By:
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Stanislaw Lem
A brilliantly crafted collection of stories from celebrated science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem.
Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. Over the course of their adventures in The Cyberiad, they travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their unsuspecting employers.
Playfully written, and ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work.
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It's Aesop's Fables for Robots
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pros:
--some funny parts
--imaginative in odd, new ways
cons:
--lack of depth in the stories or characters, which leads to it being
--boring, for the most part
--settings are intergalactic yet feudal (like, what?)
--said settings are not really elaborated on (common in sci fi) bbuuutt then author proceeds to use technical and cybernetic jargon native to the setting without explaining it. context clues only help so much
--characters whom are presumably hyper intelligent fall into the same "trap" (i.e. king: make me something, character: without knowing payment? sure!---king then tries to kill them).
honestly wouldn't recommend
I wanted to like this, I really did
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Lem offers a light-hearted, comical collection of tales that is full of belly laughs. In particular, while most individual names have a Latinized version, they are all created tongue-firmly-in-cheek. Under-neath the various plots, Lem provides critical commentary on cultural, social, and political affairs that merit the additional attribute of satire.
The narration is very good with solid character distinction. Pacing is smooth and a tad brisk.
Ingeniously humorous
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[example]: In the first fable the machine that makes anything starting with "n" is asked to make, among other things, "nature". However, in the original it is asked to make "nauka" which translates from Polish as "science".
Top notch translation and narration
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This is a great book!
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This is the first book I have read by Stanislaw Lem, so I'm not sure he always writes in this style, but there was something about this book that strongly reminded me of the style of Dr. Suess. Lem often refers to objects in the future by names in which sound nothing like modern day items. The result is a world full of Zitts, Zotts, Orplaws & Rooses (often with no explanation to what a "Zott" might be).The book itself was a collection of highly entertaining futuristic fables that follow around two inventors of robots/machines as they do everything they can to one-up the other. Each story is different from the last and seems to be JUST the right length for what it is.
I really look forward to my next Stanislaw Lem book to see if it stacks up to this one. If it does, he may soon become one of my favorite sci-fi authors.
9.2 / 10
If Dr. Suess Wrote Science Fiction...
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The narration was terrible. A better narrator might have saved this book, for me.
The one very bright spot in this book is a sequence in which an AI computer invented by one of the characters must write some poetry. The poetry written by the AI (but really by Stanislaw Lem, of course) is so great that it's worth reading the book, just to read this poetry in context.
There are a few other good bits, but for the most part, I cannot say I really liked this book.
Worth reading for one chapter, rest not so much
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not just for children!
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Silly yet insightful fun
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Narration nonpareil
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