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Janusz A. Zajdel


Born
in Warsaw, Poland
August 15, 1938

Died
July 19, 1985

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Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (August 15, 1938 in Warsaw – July 19, 1985 in Warsaw) was a prominent Polish science fiction author. He died from cancer.

Zajdel is a precursor of social and dystopian fiction. In his works, he envisions totalitarian states and collapsed societies. His heroes are desperately trying to find sense in world around them, sometimes, as in Cylinder van Troffa, they are outsiders from a different time or place, trying to adapt to a new environment. The main recurring theme in his works is a comparison of the readers' gloomy, hopeless situations to what may happen in a space environment if we carry totalitarian ideas and habits into space worlds: Red Space Republics or Space Labour Camps, or both.

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“Jeśli możesz pozwolić sobie na to, by nie liczyć uderzeń fali i upływających chwil, jeśli upływ czasu nie wywołuje paniki w twoim umyśle – jesteś naprawdę szczęśliwy”
Janusz A. Zajdel, Limes inferior

“Nieraz mogli się przekonać różni późniejsi władcy, że otrzymawszy sam chleb, lud niechybnie zapyta zaraz o masło i wędlinę, bojkotując najatrakcyjniejsze nawet igrzyska”
Janusz A. Zajdel, Limes inferior

“Dla mnie, na przykład, zupełnie niezłą realizacją idei szczęścia jest taka chwila, kiedy się leży na wznak kołysany falami, ogrzewany promieniami słońca... Kiedy naprawdę czuje się płynący czas. Rytm fali daje złudzenie, że jedynym toczącym się wokół ciebie procesem jest bieg czasu; czystego, wyabstrahowanego czasu, nie wypełnionego niczym oprócz plusku fal o burtę. Jeśli możesz pozwolić sobie na to, by nie liczyć uderzeń fal i upływających chwil, jeśli upływ czasu nie wywołuje paniki w twoim umyśle - jesteś naprawdę szczęśliwy.”
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