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Der Roboter Graumer möchte gern den idealen Menschen schaffen. Alles fängt damit an, dass der Schriftsteller Clempner völlig überraschend einen Roboter per Lieferung erhält, sich dann aber entschließt, diesen zu behalten. Graumer entwickelt sich zu einem richtigen Hausdrachen, der sich beunruhigend viel herausnimmt. Er dient seinem Herrn, wird ihm immer unentbehrlicher, aber auch lästiger. Clempner überlegt, seinen Roboter auszutauschen, aber... das Spiel nimmt eine überraschende Wendung.

Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. Over the course of their adventures in The Cyberiad, they travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their unsuspecting employers.

A witty and inventive satire of "men of science" and their thinking, as a team of scientists races to decode a mysterious message from space. "I had the feeling that I was standing at the cradle of a new mythology. A last will and testament...we as the posthumous heirs of Them...."

Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can’t remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won’t tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides.

Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have passed for him, while 127 years have elapsed on Earth. He finds that the Earth has changed beyond recognition, filled with human beings who have been medically neutralized. How does an astronaut join a civilization that shuns risk?

Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s.

La mítica novela que consagró a Stanisław Lem como autor de culto. Un texto hoy en día considerado un clásico sin paliativos de la literatura moderna. Kris Kelvin acaba de llegar a Solaris. Su misión consiste en esclarecer los problemas de conducta de los tres tripulantes de la única...

These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be.

When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the scientific research station hovering high above the surface of Solaris, he finds the place deserted except for two scientists, who have been driven mad by some unknown horror. The researchers had been trying to investigate the ocean planet, and probe...

The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community.