Lem, Stanisław

The Futurological Congress

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The Futurological Congress

From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
by Stanisław Lem (1977)

Caught up in local endless hallucinations amidst local revolution during the Eighth Futurological Congress and critically wounded, Ijon Tichy is frozen to await a future cure.

The Cyberiad

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The Cyberiad

Fables for the Cybernetic Age by
Stanisław Lem (1975).

A collection of fairy-tale-ish science fiction stories focusing on the adventures of Trurl and Klapaucius, two best friends and rival intelligent robot “constructors”.

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