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Mortal engines

by Stanisław Lem, Michael Kandel

A collection of fourteen science fiction stories exploring the theme of artificial intelligence and the surprisingly human qualities of sentient machines.

Accession 8989 ISBN 0380574063 Publisher Avon Books
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