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The Cyberiad : Fables for the Cybernetic Age 
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 | Ugh. What is this? Homers in 20th century.
Two constructor robots. They are each other's best friends and worst competitors. Trurl and Klapaucius construct machines and sail on to distant lands (stars) in search of adventure (and jobs). Make something good for your life; change it. Read Cyberiad.
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Futurological Congress (From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy) 
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 | A good friend of mine advised me this book. I trust his taste. |
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Return from the Stars 
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| An astronaut return from a ten year journey at near-light speed and finds out 127 years of earth time passed.
He was the pioneer in his society but in this new society he is just a caveman. This book puts one of the biggest paradoxes of relativity theory and space travel under focus. But then goes on questioning what is a good society and what is not. When our hero returns from the stars, he finds himself in a world where every problem is taken care of. It is a perfect world. But still something is missing. This book is written in 1960's Poland when communism was a very strong doctrine, specially for a Polish writer. The new world order he describes and criticizes has strong resemblance with communist vision of a perfect society. Could this be Lem's answer back to the communists or his vision of future of the world? |
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