Note: This is a totally subjective list, comprised of openings I found most amusing, intriguing, or arresting. You will not find “Call me Ishmael” here, largely because I never read the book. It’s a fine sentence, but it’s all I need. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” is also…
Tag: the cyberiad
CSFF Blog Tour: The Very Antithesis of a Mechanism [Spoilers]
“Not wanting to build a mere clocklike mechanism, you inadvertently – in your own punctilious way – created that which was possible, logical and inevitable, that which became the very antithesis of a mechanism …” “Please, no more!” – Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad Three stories. “The universe is infinite yet bounded.” So begins the Seventh…
Review: The Cyberiad
Written by Stanislaw Lem Translated by Michael Kandel The Cyberiad is a collection of short stories, “fables for the cybernetic age”. Appropriately, then, they star cybernetic beings. One of the peculiarities of the book is that the characters are robots – a fact never forgotten, and often used, by the author. (In one story the…