Marek Oramus (born 23 March 1952 in Siepraw) is a

Polish science fiction Science fiction and fantasy in Poland dates to the late 18th century. However, science fiction as a genre in Polish literature truly began to emerge at the end of the 19th century under the influence of Jules Verne's work. During the latter yea ...

writer and journalist. He graduated from the Silesian University of Technology in 1975. Most of his books and stories belong to the

social science fiction Social science fiction or sociological science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology or space opera and more with speculation about society. In other wor ...

genre and were written in the 1990s. Since then most of his writings have been journalistic, humorous, satirical

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s, most of them published in the

science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ...

magazine A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

s '' Fenix'' and ''

Fantastyka ''Nowa Fantastyka'' (established as ''Fantastyka'' in 1982, renamed in 1990) is a Polish speculative fiction monthly fantasy and science fiction magazine. It is the leading and oldest of the Polish magazines on this topic. History ''Fantastyk ...

'' in his ''Piąte Piwo'' (Fifth Beer) column. Since 2010 he writes essays for

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, concerning topics such as

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and

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Publications

Essay anthologies

* ''Wyposażenie osobiste'' (Iskry 1987) * ''Rozmyślania nad tlenem'' (Solaris 2001)

Short story anthologies

* ''Hieny cmentarne'' (Śląsk 1989) * ''Rewolucja z dostawą na miejsce'' (Solaris 2002)

Novels

* ''Senni zwycięzcy'' (Czytelnik 1982) * ''Arsenał'' (Iskry 1985) * ''Dzień drogi do Meorii'' (Iskry 1990) * ''Święto śmiechu'' (SuperNOWA 1995) * ''Kankan na wulkanie'' (Prószyński i S-ka 2009) * ''Trzeci najazd Marsjan'' (Media Rodzina 2010)

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