Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
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Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg was a Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 science fiction author. He was born in Płock, 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, which contains a fascinating theory about lesser and greater entities, was dubbed "the most valuable Polish SF publication of years 1945-1975".

He was the prototype of Sneer, the main character of Limes inferior
Limes inferior
Limes inferior is a social science fiction dystopian novel written in 1982 by the Polish author Janusz A. Zajdel. Limes inferior, one of Zajdel's best known works, is a dystopia showing a grim vision of a future society resulting from a merger of the two systems competing at the time - communism...

, one of the novels by Janusz A. Zajdel.

Publications

  • Robot (1973)
  • Według łotra (Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 1978)
  • Nagi cel (1980)
  • Arka (Czytelnik, Warszawa 1989)
  • Jednolita teoria czasoprzestrzeni (1990)


Posthumous
  • ORO (Amber, Warszawa 1997)
  • Trzecia cywilizacja (C&T, Toruń 1998)
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