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Janusz Andrzej Zajdel ( August 15 , 1938 in WarsawJuly 19 , 1985 in Warsaw) was a prominent Polish Science Fiction Author . He died from Cancer .

Zajdel is a precursor of Social and Dystopian Fiction . In his works, he envisions Totalitarian States and collapsed societies. His heroes are desperately trying to find sense in world around them, sometimes, as in '' Cylinder Van Troffa '', they are outsiders from a different time or place, trying to adapt to a new environment. The main recurring theme in his works is a comparison of the readers' gloomy, hopeless situations to what may happen in a space environment if we carry totalitarian ideas and habits into space worlds: Red Space Republics or Space Labour Camps, or both.

Frederik Pohl dedicated book ''Tales From The Planet Earth'' to Zajdel and A. Bertram Chandler . This book also contains one of Zajdel's short stories, "Particularly Difficult Territory", translated into English.


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  NAME Zajdel, Janusz Andrzej
  SHORT DESCRIPTION Science fiction author
  DATE OF BIRTH August 15 , 1938
  PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw , Poland
  DATE OF DEATH July 19 , 1985
  PLACE OF DEATH Warsaw , Poland