Electro Knights

All cultures have their myths, so it is with the robots.  If Arthur were a machine and not a man, would he still be a noble, just and yet flawed king?  Would a cybernetic Lancelot still fall in love with an artificial Guinevere?  All your questions will be answered asked in the pages of this book... that is, you'll begin to wonder why mechanical men seem to be as tragically flawed as their organic counterparts.  They bicker, they lust, they squabble, they die.  Why does it matter?  It matters at least as much as the sparkling vampires of Twilight.

There are twists that can not be done with flesh and blood characters.  There are parallels, plots and parameters that become examinable when shifted from the human condition to the electronic condition.  What is, what could be and what mistakes always need to be made in order to learn the same lessons.

Then there is the bizarreness that makes Lem worth reading.  These are science fiction stories tinted with philosophy, spiced with psychedelia and injected with pathos.

Read it.