Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg (1 January 1937 – 30 August 1995) was a Polish
science fiction author
This is a list of notable science-fiction authors, in alphabetical order:
A
*Dafydd ab Hugh (born 1960)
* Alexander Abasheli (1884–1954)
*Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926)
*Kōbō Abe (1924–1993)
* Robert Abernathy (1924–1990)
*Dan ...
, born in
Płock
Płock (pronounced ), officially the Ducal Capital City of Płock, is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by Central Statistical Office (Poland), GUS on 31 December 2021, the ...
, Poland.
Although unpopular during his life, after his suicide he became recognized as one of the most significant authors of Polish SF.
His novel ''Robot'' was first published in English in 2021 in a translation by Tomasz Mirkowicz, who died in 2003. He was the prototype of Sneer, the main character of ''
Limes inferior'', one of the novels by
Janusz A. Zajdel.
Publications
* ''Robot'' ("Robot") (1973)
* ''Według łotra'' ("According, to the Thief") (Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 1978)
* ''Nagi cel'' ("The Naked Target") (1980)
* ''Arka'' ("The Ark") (Czytelnik, Warszawa 1989)
* ''Jednolita teoria czasoprzestrzeni'' ("The Uniform Theory of the Spacetime") (1990)
**A non-science fiction book, in which the author presents his vision of the "
General Theory of Everything The General Theory of Everything () is a sarcastic coinage of Stanisław Lem introduced in 1966. The biographical sketch of Ijon Tichy in "The Twenty-eighth Voyage" of Tychy's '' Star Diaries'' says that a grandfather of Ijon, Jeremiasz Tichy, "de ...
", i.e., the unifying theory for all physical aspects of the universe. This theory was not taken seriously by physicists.
[Lech Keller]
"Przyczynek do biografii Stanisława Lema"
(retrieved 16 February 2020), Acta Polonica Monashiensis (Monash University: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Volume 3 Number 2, R&S Press, Melbourne, Vic., 2019, p. 9
Posthumous
* "ORO" ("ORO") (Amber, Warszawa 1997)
* "Trzecia cywilizacja" ("The Third Civilization") (C&T, Toruń 1998)
References
External links
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1937 births
1995 deaths
Polish science fiction writers
Writers from Płock
1995 suicides
Suicides in Poland
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