Janusz Andrzej Zajdel was a Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland to Stanisław Lem. His major genres were social science fiction and dystopia. His main recurring theme involved the gloomy prospects for a space environment into which mankind carried totalitarian ideas and habits: Red Space Republics, or Space Labor Camps, or both. His heroes desperately try to find meaning in the world around them.
Andrzej Ziemiański, also known as Patrick Shoughnessy, is a Polish author of fantasy, science fiction, thriller and crime, who by 2012 have sold over 500,000 copies of his books. Ziemiański was educated as an architect and he holds a PhD in architecture.
Jacek Józef Dukaj is a Polish science fiction and fantasy writer. His fiction explores such themes as alternate history, alternative physics and logic, human nature, religion, the relationship between science and power, technological singularity, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism. He is regarded among the most popular Polish contemporary science fiction authors.
Witold Chmielecki, better known by the pseudonym of Feliks Wiktor Kres, was a Polish fantasy writer. Winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award for his 1992 novel Król Bezmiarów.
Blood of Elves is the first novel in The Witcher series written by the Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski, first published in Poland in 1994. It is a sequel to the Witcher short stories collected in the books The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny and is followed by Time of Contempt. The book won the Janusz A. Zajdel Award in 1994 and the David Gemmell Legend Award in 2009. An English translation was published in the United Kingdom in 2008 (Gollancz) and in the United States in 2009 (Orbit).
Cała prawda o planecie Ksi (1983) is a social science fiction novel by Polish writer Janusz A. Zajdel about the first colony of the Earth beyond the Solar System, whose hibernated settlers were taken over by terrorists during the flight. The colony is visited by the inspectors arriving in secret to discover why they do not answer any messages from the Earth. The novel covers the problems of political systems, terrorism and the manipulation of power, and includes multiple allusions at People's Republic of Poland.
Ewa Białołęcka is a Polish fantasy writer. She currently lives in Gdańsk. Her literary debut was her short story Wariatka (Madwoman), published in 1993. Since then she has written more than a dozen short stories, two of which, Tkacz Iluzji (1994) and Błękit Maga (1997) were awarded with the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, and another, Nocny śpiewak, nominated to this award. She also published Piołun i miód, all of which are part of the Kroniki Drugiego Kręgu series. In 2005, she published Naznaczeni błękitem, which is a new version of the Tkacz Iluzji short story collection, made more consistent with the other two novels. Białołęcka also creates stained glass works.
Tomasz Kołodziejczak is a Polish science fiction and fantasy writer, screenwriter, publisher and editor of books, comics and role-playing games.
Ice is a Polish novel written in 2007 by the Polish science fiction writer Jacek Dukaj, published in Poland by Wydawnictwo Literackie. The novel mixes alternate history with science fiction elements, in particular, with alternative physics and logic. It won the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, European Union Prize for Literature and Kościelski Award.
Coming out of the Shadow is a science fiction novel by Polish writer Janusz A. Zajdel. Critics variously translated the title as Out of the Shadow, Leaving the Shadow, etc.
The Old Axolotl is a 2015 digital-only novel by Polish science-fiction author Jacek Dukaj. The novel was released in Polish on March 10, 2015, and shortly afterward, on March 24 that year, in English. It has been described as "an experiment in reading the electronic literature of the future".
Michał Cholewa is a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer. His 2014 book Forta won the Janusz A. Zajdel Award.
Krzysztof Piskorski is a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer. His books Cienioryt (2013) and Czterdzieści i cztery (2016) won the Janusz A. Zajdel Award. Piskorski has also worked in the board game industry, writing story elements and co-designing several board games by Polish game company Awaken Realms.
Apostezjon is social science fiction dystopia trilogy by Polish sociologist and science fiction writer Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński. It consists of three novels, Wir pamięci, Rozpad połowiczny, and Mord założycielski. The overall story covers the dynamics of Apostezjon, a totalitarian island-state governed by the technocratic clandestine supreme governing body "Team of Experts" with its executive organ, the powerful Special Service, up to its collapse into a dictatorship after a coup staged by the deputy chief of the Special Service.
The Lord of the Ice Garden is a four-volume science fiction and fantasy novel by Polish writer Jarosław Grzędowicz. The plot tells the story of a special forces soldier from Earth, dispatched to investigate a mystery on another planet, where magic exists.
Radek Rak is a Polish veterinarian best known as a writer of fantasy literature.
"CyberJoly Drim" is a cyberpunk short story by Polish author Antonina Liedtke. In the story, the heroine abandons her body in favour of a digital existence. The story was first published on Liedtke's personal website in 1998 before being reprinted by Fenix magazine in 1999.
Miasto grobów. Uwertura is a science fiction short story by Wit Szostak published in 2007 in the second volume of the anthology Księga strachu by the Runa Publishing House. The story is classified under the genres of alternate history, urban fantasy, and horror.
Wilcza zamieć is a fantasy short story by Jarosław Grzędowicz from 2005. It won the Janusz A. Zajdel Awards. It was first published in the anthology Deszcze niespokojne. Three years later, in 2008, it appeared in the collection Wypychacz zwierząt . Its content references Norse mythology and World War II.
