The Cyberiad
Fables for the Cybernetic Age
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The Cyberiad
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Scott Aiello
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Stanislaw Lem
About this listen
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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The way he skips effortlessly through Lem’s tongue twisting tall tales needs to be heard to be believed!
Oh, and Lem is pretty good too!
Amazing narrator!
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hilarious
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amazing storytelling
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The writing, the performance, the stories; If you have a very smart baby then this is for you, but as an adult the stories drags on and on and they're all basically the same: The protagonists are commissioned to build a massive machine that turns into a time traveling dragon that can only be defeated by philosophical conundrum inside a Schrödinger's cat box which makes the Deus ex Machina implode.
Each story seem to be a "shower thought" written down on a post-it.
The narrator is British so you get all the P's in the world. They pop. It's not so noticeable in the beginning but certain chapters are just pure caffeine and P's that pop!
Some of the stories in the beginning were interesting but after a while you realize they're all the same but with a slight twist.
I've enjoyed some of Lem's other books but in this one you can tell that he's into hard sci-fi because he forgets all about the story and start listing his advanced math knowledge, which is a problem with many authors that fall in love with their research material. They seem to think it's too good to not include all of it and the editor is too afraid to appear stupid by suggesting to remove it.
I gave the story 3 stars because some of them where thought provoking, the sad thing is I'll never go back and listen to them again because I don't feel like navigating all bad ones just to find the good ones.
Like a childrens book specifically for Einstein
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