1967 books (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 47. Chapters: Smith of Wootton Major, Dangerous Visions, The Cyberiad, The Report from Iron Mountain, The Society of the Spectacle, The Mersey Sound, Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, A Short History of Pakistan, 1967 in literature, The Medium Is the Massage, Beyond Eagle and Swastika, The Death of a President, Thorns, A History of Vector Analysis, Three Popes and the Jews, The Ghost in the Machine, Mots d'Heures, Famine 1975! America's Decision: Who Will Survive?, Times Atlas of the World, Speech and Phenomena, Conan the Usurper, The Revolution of Everyday Life, The Codebreakers, The Naked Ape, Kull, The Crows of Pearblossom, Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, World's Best Science Fiction: 1967, Rod Serling's Devils and Demons, The New Industrial State, Travellers by Night, The Nigger Bible, Tales of the Dervishes, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, Deep Waters, 36 Children, Conan the Warrior, The World that was Ours, Printing and the Mind of Man, The Fantastic Swordsmen, Once Upon an Island, Ghubar-e-khatir, Down These Mean Streets, Strange Gateways, T zero, Great Science Fiction Stories About the Moon, Drummer Hoff, Flannelled Fool, Three Tales of Horror, Des barbelés sur la prairie, The Nine Billion Names of God, Iron Men and Silver Stars, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, One Hundred and Two H-Bombs, The Overloaded Man, New Writings in SF 11, The Day of Forever, The Past Through Tomorrow, Send a Gunboat, The Hebrew Goddess, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Asimov's Guide to the Bible, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, How Children Learn, America's Western Frontiers, The Discovery of Grounded Theory, New Writings in SF 10, The Story of Science in America, Calamity Jane, The Disaster Area, The Theory of Island Biogeography, Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack, Writing and Difference, Tortillas pour les Dalton, Our Crowd, A Year from Monday, The Experience of Literature, Reflections on the Social Future of Mankind, The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam, Warrant for Genocide, Through a Glass, Clearly, The Languages of the Peoples of the USSR, Polish Logic, Death at an Early Age, The Undergrowth of Literature, The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Shaping of the Arabs. Excerpt: The Cyberiad (Polish: ) is a series of short stories by Stanislaw Lem. The Polish version was first published in 1965, with an English translation appearing in 1974. The main protagonists of the series are Trurl and Klapaucius, the "constructors". The vast majority of characters are either robots, or intelligent machines. The stories focus on problems of the individual and society, as well as on the vain search for human happiness through technological means. Two of these stories were included in the book The Mind's I. Trurl and Klapaucius are brilliant (robotic) engineers, called "constructors" (because they can construct practically anything at will), capable of almost God-like exploits. For instance, on one occasion Trurl creates an entity capable of extracting accurate information from the random motion of gas particles, which he calls a "Demon of the Second Kind". He describes the "Demon of the First Kind" as a Maxwell's demon. On another, the two constructors re-arrange stars near their home planet in order to advertise. The duo are best friends and rivals. When they are not busy con...