Category: Books

Pol­ish sci­ence fic­tion was new to me. Stanisław Lem is great. His Cybe­ri­ad is appro­pri­ate­ly sub­ti­tled Fables for a Cyber­net­ic Age and con­cerns itself with two wily con­struc­tors, Trurl and Kla­pau­cius, who are just stu­pid enough to get into all kinds of scrapes, and just smart enough to get the best of every­one in the end.
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