The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time
Adam Wisniewski-Snerg (1937-95) was born on the outskirts of Warsaw. His science fiction writing is largely focused around the consequences of totalitarianism. Although largely unread during his lifetime, after his suicide in 1995 his work began to receive major critical attention. He is now considered to be, along with Stanislaw Lem, one of Poland's greatest science fiction writers.
Robot's technical proficiency and ontological ambitions could be
compared to those of Lem at his best, and its author, like Lem,
considered himself less an sf writer than a prose-writing
philosopher of metaphysical inclinations. With its powerful vision
of a society of slaves controlled and abused by a mysterious
Mechanism and a stimulating theory of Superbeings, Robot was almost
immediately recognized as an instant classic which catapulted Snerg
to the rank of Poland's best sf authors
*Science Fiction Encyclopedia*
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