Fabryka Słów is a Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

-based, 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...

 publishing house. It was founded in 2002 by Robert J. Szmidt

Robert J. Szmidt

Robert Jerzy Szmidt, born 26 July 1962 in Wrocław, Poland, is a Polish science fiction and fantasy writer, translator and journalist. He was the founder of the Science Fiction magazine and Nautilus Award, and author of three novels and 12 short stories as well as several translations.Szmidt is...

 and it is focused on fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 genre.

The first book published by the house was Kroniki Jakuba Wędrowycza by Andrzej Pilipiuk

Andrzej Pilipiuk

Andrzej Pilipiuk , Polish humoristic science-fiction and fantasy author. He debuted in 1996 with short story "Hiena", which featured the first appearance of Jakub Wędrowycz, an alcoholic exorcist. Since that time, Pilipiuk has written several dozen other short stories about that character.Nine...

. Other notable authors who published in Fabryka Słów are: Andrzej Ziemiański

Andrzej Ziemianski

Andrzej Ziemiański is the Polish science fiction writer and columnist. He won twice the Janusz A. Zajdel Award in class 'short story': 2001 for Autobahn nach Poznań and in 2003 for Zapach szkła...

, Eugeniusz Dębski

Eugeniusz Debski

Eugeniusz Dębski is a Polish science-fiction writer and translator of Russian literature. Born January 26, 1952 in Truskawiec, early in his life he moved to Wrocław where he graduated from the Russian faculty of the Wrocław University...

, Jacek Komuda

Jacek Komuda

Jacek Lech Komuda is a Polish writer and historian. He specialized in the period of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and History of Poland , and is the author of several novels and short stories of fantasy/historical novel genre. He is a co-author of the Dzikie Pola role-playing game, and script...

, Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, Jarosław Grzędowicz, Maja Lidia Kossakowska

Maja Lidia Kossakowska

Maja Lidia Kossakowska is a Polish fantasy writer whose first publication was in 1997. She was nominated eight times for the Janusz A. Zajdel Award for her short stories and novels, and received it in 2007 for the short story Smok tańczy dla Chung Fonga. She has also received several other awards....

, Tomasz Pacyński

Tomasz Pacynski

Tomasz Pacyński was a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer. He was one of the creators and since 2004 the chief editor of Fahrenheit, the first Polish Internet science fiction fanzine...

, Jacek Piekara

Jacek Piekara

Jacek Piekara is a Polish fantasy writer. He has published numerous novels and short stories. He is best known for his stories about inquisitor Mordimer Madderdin, which as of 2011 are collected in seven books.-External links:...

, Anna Kańtoch

Anna Kańtoch

Anna Kańtoch is a Polish fantasy writer. She has published three novels and numerous short stories.Her 2008 short story Światy Dantego. and 2009 novel Przedksiężycowi received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award....

 and Jakub Ćwiek

Jakub Ćwiek

Jakub Ćwiek is a Polish fantasy writer.He debuted in 2005 with the short story collection Kłamca . The short story "Cicha noc" contained in the book was nominated to the Janusz A. Zajdel Award....

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Since 2009, the house is also a owner of Science Fiction

Science Fiction (magazine)

Science Fiction is a Polish speculative fiction monthly magazine. It was established in 2001 under the name Science Fiction by Robert J. Szmidt, who was also the first editor...

magazine.