Stanisław Lem
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| Original Title: | Bajki robotów |
| ISBN: | 8371620128 |
| Edition Language: | Polish |
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These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. “Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales” (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.Point Out Of Books Bajki robotów
| Title | : | Bajki robotów |
| Author | : | Stanisław Lem |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 94 pages |
| Published | : | 1996 by Siedmioróg (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Short Stories. Fiction. European Literature. Polish Literature. Fantasy. Classics. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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3.5Deeper than the fabulistic façade might lead you to think. And to me, the last two tales might jut be worth the entire collection.This is only the second book I've read by Lem and I will continue to read more by him in the future. I didn't realise when picking this up it was a short story collection, as it is a very small book overall. Despite, or maybe due to, the short length the stories in it are kept to a perfect length and all manage to be both amusing in a wry way and also intelligently plotted and thought about.
Fourteen stories about robots, translated from Polish. The first eleven are from a collection called Fables for robots; like the stories of The Cyberiad they are short satirical parables or fairy tales set in a world inhabited by robots and are just fun to read. The twelfth story features Ijon Tichy, and the thirteenth is a story of Pilot Pirx, two characters who appear frequently in Lem's writings. The last and best story is a stand-alone, "The Hunt", which is more serious and recalls themes
The first half were stories in the vein of The Cyberiad; the second half were an Ijon Tichy story (The Sanatorium of Doctor Vliperdius); one Pirx the Pilot story (The Hunt, which Ive already read somewhere), and one non-series story, The Mask.The Cyberiad-style stories are in the style of fables, but fables of a machine culture and their god-like computer/robots who have created various aspects of the universe. Such as Uranium Earpieces: Once there lived a certain engineer-cosmogonist who lit
Wanting to get away from English literature for a bit I decided to go through my Stanisław Lem backlog. I picked Fables for Robots, more or less at random.Fables for Robots is a book that combines aspects of traditional fables with science fiction. Conceptually, the stories are written as if presented from a "robot mother" to a "robot child" - the denizens of the stories are themselves robots. Robot kings, robot knights, robot inventors (that invent other robots or machines!), robot advisors
Wanting to get away from English literature for a bit I decided to go through my Stanisław Lem backlog. I picked Fables for Robots, more or less at random.Fables for Robots is a book that combines aspects of traditional fables with science fiction. Conceptually, the stories are written as if presented from a "robot mother" to a "robot child" - the denizens of the stories are themselves robots. Robot kings, robot knights, robot inventors (that invent other robots or machines!), robot advisors
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