Marek Oramus (born 23 March 1952 in Siepraw) is a

Polish science fiction Science fiction and fantasy in Poland dates to the late 18th century. During the latter years of the People's Republic of Poland, a very popular genre of science fiction was social science fiction. Later, many other genres gained prominence. Po ...

writer and journalist. He graduated from the Silesian University of Technology in 1975. Most of his books and stories belong to the

social science fiction Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology/space opera and more with speculation about society. In other words, it "absorbs and discusses anthropolo ...

genre and were written in the 1990s. Since then most of his writing have been journalistic, humorous, satirical

essay An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...

s, most of them published in the

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

s '' Fenix'' and ''

Fantastyka ''Fantastyka'' (est 1982, in 1990 renamed ''Nowa Fantastyka'') is a Polish speculative fiction monthly fantasy and science fiction magazine. History ''Fantastyka'' was established in 1982 by sci-fi fans Andrzej Krzepkowski, Jacek Rodek and , u ...

'' in his ''Piąte Piwo'' (Fifth Beer) column. Since 2010 he writes essays for

Rzeczpospolita () is the official name of Poland and a traditional name for some of its predecessor states. It is a compound of "thing, matter" and "common", a calque of Latin ''rés pública'' ( "thing" + "public, common"), i.e. ''republic'', in Engli ...

, concerning topics such as

rare Earth hypothesis In planetary astronomy and astrobiology, the Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity such as sexually reproducing, multicellular organisms on Earth (and, subsequently, human intelligenc ...

and

futurology Futures studies, futures research, futurism or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological advancement, and other environmental trends, often for the purpose of exploring how people will li ...

Publications

Essay anthologies

* ''Wyposażenie osobiste'' (Iskry 1987) * ''Rozmyślania nad tlenem'' (Solaris 2001)

Short story anthologies

* ''Hieny cmentarne'' (Śląsk 1989) * ''Rewolucja z dostawą na miejsce'' (Solaris 2002)

Novels

* ''Senni zwycięzcy'' (Czytelnik 1982) * ''Arsenał'' (Iskry 1985) * ''Dzień drogi do Meorii'' (Iskry 1990) * ''Święto śmiechu'' (SuperNOWA 1995) * ''Kankan na wulkanie'' (Prószyński i S-ka 2009) * ''Trzeci najazd Marsjan'' (Media Rodzina 2010)

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