''Walc Stulecia'' (Polish for "Waltz of the Century") is a

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 ...

novel published in 1998 by the

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

Rafał Ziemkiewicz Rafał () is a Polish masculine given name. It is the Polish form of the name Raphael. Notable people with the name A-J * Rafał Adamczyk (born 1974), Polish politician * Rafał Ambrozik (born 1979), Polish politician * Rafał Andraszak (bor ...

. It was published in Poland by

superNOWA The Independent Publishing House NOWA (, meaning 'new' or 'nova') was the first underground publishing house in the Polish People's Republic (see samizdat). After opening in 1977, it soon became the largest independent publisher in Communist Pol ...

. The novel received the prime Polish award for science-fiction literature, Janusz A. Zajdel Award, in 1998. The book contrasts the society of

Belle Époque The Belle Époque () or La Belle Époque () was a period of French and European history that began after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Occurring during the era of the Fr ...

and a fictional vision of a 21st-century society. Painted in a pessimistic tone, it follows the story of a game developer working on the game entitled "Walc stulecia".

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''Era widm''
(Review), Rzeczpospolita, 15.02.2010
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