I found this book on the recommendation of a family friend of mine, a professor at a nearby college. It's written originally in Polish by a man named Stanislaw Lem, notorious in the science fiction community in his day for his scorn towards his American contemporaries. This book is absolute genius. The stories initially seem like childish little medieval - era fantasy tales, until you realize two things: a. all the characters are robots (it actually took me a bit to understand that), and b. how very deep they are.
The stories themselves are pretty entertaining, in a kind of cute way, focusing around two "constructors" capable of building anything. The way in which they are forced to use there machines are generally pretty interesting and surprisingly logical, but the when you look back at them they generally exploit a weakness in human character you never realized was there. I'd really recommend this...
The Cyberiad
Started by Cheshire Fox, May 07 2008 08:45 PM
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Posted 08 May 2008 - 07:34 PM
Yeeaah...but it's not really based around stories, as in it's not epic adventures, the emphasis is more on the deeper meaning. It's not an action novel, is what I mean.
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