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.