<p><b>A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations</b><br><br><i>'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...'</i><br><br>Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar and morose civilizations. <i>The Cyberiad </i>is oddly reminiscent of <i>Gulliver's Travels</i>, <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>, <i>The Phantom Tollbooth </i>and <i>Alice in Wonderland. </i>Charming, mind-bending and anarchic, it is perhaps Lem's greatest work. This edition includes all of Daniel Mroz's hallucinatory original illustrations.</p>