Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad is $1.99 at
Amazon US and
Kobo right now. You may want to check your library, even if you also "have all the Lem" - I was surprised that I had many of his others but not this one.
Quote:
“Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines.” —The New York Times Book Review
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 a real universe” (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mr—z. Translated by Michael Kandel.
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