In particular, the tale of 'Zipperupus, king of the Partheginians, the Deutons, and the Profligoths' contains several titled stories-in-story presented as dreams from 'dreaming cabinets': Essentially it is a matryoshka of stories. Bajka o trzech maszynach opowiadających króla Genialona ( Cyberiada Wydawnictwo Literackie 1965), translated as Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius.Wielkie lanie ( Bajki robotów Wydawnictwo Literackie 1964), translated as A Good Schellacking.Maszyna Trurla ( Bajki robotów Wydawnictwo Literackie 1964), translated as Trurl's Machine.Jak ocalał świat ( Bajki robotów Wydawnictwo Literackie 1964), translated as How the World was Saved.The whole series was published in the 1965 Polish collection Cyberiada by Wydawnictwo Literackie and also included stories published previously elsewhere. There is a steel statue of Elektrybałt in the Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw. The word 'Cyberiad' is used in the series only once as a name of a pretty woman in a poem by Elektrybałt, an electronic poet invented by Trurl. Two of these stories were included in the book The Mind's I.

The stories focus on problems of the individual and society, as well as on the vain search for human happiness through technological means. The vast majority of characters are either robots or intelligent machines. The main protagonists of the series are Trurl and Klapaucius, the 'constructors'. The Cyberiad ( Polish: Cyberiada) is a series of humorous science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisław Lem, originally published in 1965, with an English translation appearing in 1974.

Imaginary Magnitude by Stanisław Lem