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I’m a longtime sci-fi fan, born in Hungary, who has lived across Europe and now calls Singapore home. Long before I ever considered publishing, I was filling notebooks with short stories, sketches, and worldbuilding ideas, writing has always been my way of exploring strange lands and distant stars. Though I hold a PhD in social sciences and work as an associate professor, my real passion has always been storytelling and imagining not just technologies, but the human lives behind them.

With ICARUS I chose to set my first novel on Mars, because I believe the true drama of space lies in people: their hopes, their fears, their fragile attempts at building something new. I spent years studying planetary science, habitat design, and future-tech id ...more

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Politics on Mars Without Taking Sides: The Geopolitical Layer of Icarus

When I began shaping the world of Icarus, I knew I did not want to write a political thriller. I was not interested in taking sides or commenting on today’s conflicts. The world is already full of real tension, and I had no desire to mirror it directly. Instead, the geopolitical background in the story serves a different purpose. It builds dramatic pressure, gives weight to the characters’ decisio Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 03, 2025 15:31 • Tags: ancient-greek-drama, drama, geopolitics, human-nature, mars, mars-colonization, myths, politics, psychology, science-fiction, storytelling

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