**A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations **

**A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations **

*'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...'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. The Cyberiad is oddly reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels , The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Phantom Tollbooth and * Alice in Wonderland. Charming, mind-bending and anarchic, it is perhaps Lem's greatest work. This edition includes all of Daniel Mroz's hallucinatory original illustrations.