Apathetic Citizens: Of both Genre Savvy ( Paradyzja) and not-my-problem sorts.

The only exception seems to be Felicitas, a short story that comprises several characters' personal accounts of a certain event they all had a part in (and approached it with different foreknowledge, saw it differently, and ultimately walked away with different experiences) - two of the narrators are women. They come to Earth for the produce in the first place.

Alien Catnip: The Wyjście z cienia aliens like honey and livid pinkgill mushrooms (poisonous to humans, but the aliens just act kind of drunk after eating them).

Alice Allusion: Limes Inferior features, as an important character, a mysterious young woman who calls herself 'Alicja' ('Alice'), quotes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and turns out to be literally from another world.

The Ragnarök Proofing lasts, according to the future archaeologists, for about two hundred years, after which the photovoltaic cells stop working and the winds (stronger on a deforested planet) break them into dust.

The Immortal thinks this is for when the lunarians recolonise.

Absurdly Dedicated Worker: All the machinery keeping Earth cities in order in Cylinder van Troffa.

His only English-translated work, the short story Szczególnie trudny teren ( Particularly Difficult Territory) features in Frederik Pohl's Tales from the Planet Earth anthology. The annual Polish Sci-Fi fandom award has been named for him, after Zajdel was awarded it posthumously (for the novel Paradyzja). Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (15 August 1938 - 19 July 1985) was a Polish Science Fiction writer, mostly interested in how Dystopiae are built and work (or don't).Ī physicist in Real Life, his stories are very scientifically accurate, sometimes to the point of plot points like an ancient figurine being covered in californium (Zajdel's specialty was radioactivity and nuclear physics) or Coriolis forces revealing something important (more than once).

Limes inferior by Janusz A. Zajdel