Mortal Engines
Publisher description: Translated from the original Polish text, and with an introduction by Michael Kandel. These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Stainslaw Lem's fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. The first eleven stories, a cycle called "Fables for Robots," are set in a cosmos inhabited exclusively by machines. Revolving around an assortment of electroknights and cyberkings, the stories combine the timeless quality of fairy tales and parables with a twist that is unmistakably Lem.— Google Books
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Contents Introduction to the Harvest edition (1992) by Michael Kandel vii The Three Electroknights 1 Uranium Earpieces 8 How Erg the Self-inducting Slew a Paleface 15 Two Monsters 31 The White Death 41 How Microx and Gigant Made the Universe Expand 48 Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon 55 The Advisers of King Hydrops 63 Automatthew's Friend 79 King Globares and the Sages 101 The Tale of King Gnuff 114 The Sanatorium of Dr. Vliperdius 126 The Hunt 138 The Mask 181
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