![]() He is now considered to be, along with Stanislaw Lem, one of Poland's greatest science fiction writers. Although largely unread during his lifetime, after his suicide in 1995 his work began to receive major critical attention. ![]() His science fiction writing is largely focused around the consequences of totalitarianism. Is BER-66 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers, a slow-motion city on the verge of destruction, and ultimately, the all-powerful Mechanism itself.Ĭonsidered to be one of the most important and original Polish science fiction novels of all time but never before translated into English, Adam Wisniewski-Snerg's debut novel is a haunting and mind-bending masterpiece of philosophical enquiry that penetrates deep into the heart of what it means to be human.Īdam Wisniewski-Snerg (1937-95) was born on the outskirts of Warsaw. ![]() The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time ![]()
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