Kyberiade
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Der Band versammelt alle Fabeln zum kybernetischen Zeitalter, die Stanislaw Lern unter dem Titel »Kyberiade« zusammenfasste: von fünfzehn Erzählungen erscheinen sieben erstmals in deutscher Sprache; die anderen wurden für diese Ausgabe durchgesehen, eine neu übersetzt.
»Das Weltall ist unendlich, aber begrenzt, und deshalb kehrt ein Lichtstrahl, wohin er auch aufbricht, nach Milliarden von Jahrhunderten an seinen Ausgangspunkt zurück, sofern er nur genügend Kraft hat; nicht anders ist es mit den Nachrichten, die zwischen den Sternen und Planeten kreisen. Eines Tages erreichte Trurl aus großer Ferne die Kunde von zwei mächtigen Konstrukteuren-Benefaktoren, die über soviel Vernunft und soviel Vollkommenheit verfügten, daß niemand ihnen gleichkomme. Alsbald begab er sich zu Klapauzius. Der aber erklärte ihm, die Nachricht spreche nicht von geheimnisvollen Rivalen, sondern von ihnen selbst, sie habe den Kosmos umkreist. « So beginnt die siebente und letzte der Reisen, die die beiden Konstrukteure und Erfinder Trurl und Klapauzius in den Weltraum unternehmen.

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Dazzling!
G. Moses "theonlytruegeo" Y-m-d H:i:s

Imagine a mixture of Borges, Calvino, Saint-Exupéry, Pynchon, Douglas Adams, Samuel Beckett, L. Frank Baum, Dr. Seuss, Lewis Caroll, and perhaps a little Philip K. Dick. That's what this is like, sort of. It is a collection of stories, some profound, others 'merely' entertaining, written by a man who was clearly drunk on sheer linguistic exuberance. The sheer virtuosity of the language is breathtaking: the book is packed to the gills with puns, rhymes, nonsense words, and general verbal japery. Huge amounts of credit must of course go to the translator, Michael Kandel, on this score. I wish the book included translation notes; he must have had to rebuild innumerable language formations from scratch in order to make them work--and work dazzlingly well--in English. Particularly impressive in this regard are 'The Fifth Sally (A), or Trurl's Prescription,' a delightful bit of frippery driven almost entirely by verbal dexterity; and an extraordinary mathematical love poem related in 'The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electric Bard.' The centerpiece of the collection, however, must surely be the 'Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius,' which, as you would expect, includes a flurry of internal stories, some of which in turn have stories inside them. One of these internal stories, that of Mymosh the Self-Begotten, is in my opinion the book's highlight. If Sam Beckett had turned his hand to science fiction, this is what he would have written. It's as strange and unsettling as any of Sam's short novels. Finally, some mention must be made of the highly stylized illustrations by Daniel Mroz scattered throughout the book; they complement the action to perfection.

Lem is clearly having fun with The Cyberiad, and it's contagious. I had tried, some time ago, to read Tales of Pirx the Pilot, but I found the first tale so mind-numbingly dull that I couldn't bring myself to finish it. This, on the other hand, is a truly excellent collection, and you can rest assured tha I'll be checking out more of Lem in the near future.

link:http://www.amazon.com/review/R2MPH1QGVVFLY6/r ef=cm_cr_rdp_perm
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