Fabryka Słów (English: ''Factory of Words'') is a Warsaw-based

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...

publishing house Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

. It was founded in Lublin in 2001 by Eryk Górski and Robert Łakuta who always wanted to publish good literature they liked reading themselves. It is focused on the

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and d ...

and science fiction genres. Fabryka Słów also publishes historical novels and journalism for example Hubal by Jacek Komuda and Polactwo by Rafał Ziemkiewicz. It owns a number of popular series, most notably: Pan Lodowego Ogrodu,

Achaja ''Achaia'' is a Polish fantasy book series, series of novels written by Andrzej Ziemiański, published in three volumes in 2002 in literature, 2002, 2003 in literature, 2003 and 2004 in literature, 2004 by the Fabryka Słów. The first two volum ...

, Demonic Cycle, Seria o Przygodach Jakuba Wędrowycza, Inkwizytor Mordimer. Since 2013 they have been publishing a literary series of Fabryczna Zona (post-apocalyptic S.T.A.L.K.E.R universe) The first book published by the Fabryka Słów was Kroniki Jakuba Wędrowycza by Andrzej Pilipiuk. So far there have been more than fifteen titles in this series. Other notable Polish authors who published in Fabryka Słów are:

Andrzej Ziemiański Andrzej Ziemiański, also known as Patrick Shoughnessy (born 17 February 1960), 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 a ...

Eugeniusz Dębski Eugeniusz Dębski (b. 26 January 1952; sometimes referred to as ''EuGeniusz'', a word-play coined after the Polish word for genius) is a Polish science-fiction writer and translator of Russian literature. Born in Truskavets (then in USSR) early i ...

Jacek Komuda Jacek Lech Komuda (born 23 June 1972) is a Polish writer and historian. He specialized in the period of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and History of Poland (1569–1795), and is the author of several novels and short stories of fantasy/his ...

, Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, Jarosław Grzędowicz,

Maja Lidia Kossakowska Maja Lidia Korwin-Kossakowska-Grzędowicz (27 February 1972 – 23 May 2022) was a Polish fantasy writer. She was first published in 1997. She was nominated eight times for the Janusz A. Zajdel Award for her short stories and novels, and received ...

, Jacek Piekara, Michał Gołkowski, Tomasz Kołodziejczak, Magdalena Kozak, Adam Przechrzta. Fabryka Słów publishes foreign authors too, for example: Peter V.Brett, Miroslav Żamboch,

Angus Watson Angus Watson (born 4 September 1972) is a British novelist and journalist. His epic fantasy trilogy set in the British Iron Age began in 2014 with ''Age of Iron''. ''Clash of Iron'' was released in March 2015 and ''Reign of Iron'' was released in ...

, Brian McClellan,

Patricia Briggs Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Biography Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. She now resides in Benton City, WA B ...

and

Ilona Andrews Ilona Andrews is the pen name of Ilona Gordon and Andrew Gordon, an American husband-and-wife duo who write urban fantasy and romantic fiction together. Early lives Ilona Gordon was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States a ...

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