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Description
Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. “The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing... read more
First Sentence
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so you could easily count them from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were set apart, and the smaller, yellowing types pushed off to the corners as bodies of a lower grade, when there was not a speck of dust to be found in outer space, nor any nebular debris-in those good old days it was the custom for constructors, once they had received their Diploma of Perpetual Omnipotence with distinction, to sally forth ofttimes and bring to distant lands the benefit of their expertise.
Table of Contents
1. How the World Was Saved
2. Trurl's Machine
3. A Good Shellacking
4. The Seven Sallies of Trurl and Klapaucius:
a) The First Sally, or The Trap of Gargantius
b) The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Band
c) The Second Sally, or The Offer of King Krool
d) The Third Sally, or The Dragons of Probability
d) The Fourth Sally, or How Trurl Built a Femfatalatron to Save Prince Pantagoon from the Pangs of Love, and How Later He Resorted to a Cannonade of Babies
e) The Fifth Sally, or The Mischief of King Balerion
f) The Fifth Sally (A), or Trurl's Prescription
g) The Sixth Sally, or How Trurl and Klapaucius Created a Demon of the Second King to Defeat the Pirate Pugg
h) The Seventh Sally, or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good
i) Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius
j) Altuizine
5. From the "Cyphroeroticon," or Tales of Deviations, Superfixations and Aberrations of the Heart: Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal
Authors & Contributors
- Stanisaw Lem (Author)
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