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 The collection of short stories Bajki robotów (The Tales of the Robots) was published in English in two volumes: Mortal Engines and The Cosmic Carnival of Stanislaw Lem.
Readers who enjoyed The Cyberiad will also find this book very appealing.
Neil Barron, Delap's F&SF Review
Pyron invented the wire telegraph, and then he pulled the wire out so fine, it wasn't' there, and in this fashion he obtained the wireless... Later I visited the hospital wards. I was introduced to an Old Testament computer that suffered from senility and couldn't' count up the ten commandments... what is attractive in Lem is his view of humanity not as as matter of organic life or biological development, but as a matter of freedom - even if it is a freedom we may not in fact be able to exercise.
Gore Vidal, The New York Times Review of Books
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A Look Inside Mortal Engines |
The Tale of Machine that Fought a Dragon
King Poleander Partobon, ruler of Cyberia, was a great warrior, and being an advocate of the methods of modern strategy, above all else he prized cybernetics as a military art. His kingdom swarmed with thinking machines, for Poleander put them everywhere he could. (...) On the planet cyberbosks of cybergorse rustled in the wind, cybercalliopes and cyberviols sang - but besides these civilian devices there were twice as many military, for the King was most bellicose.
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