Mortal Engines

A virtuoso storyteller a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age The New York Times He was a robothypochondriac On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man shes programmed to kill a paranoid King converts his kingdom into his artificial mind but his dreams rebel These stories range from surreal fables that satirically turn the fairy tale on its head to longer works including the man vs robot thriller The Hunt and possibly fictions strangest love story The Mask InMortal Engines Stanislaw Lem lays bare humanitys clash with machines masterfully exploring science fictions furthest frontiers