focus

The Blotting Book ends with a murder story, but this is not a detective story. There is one amazing feature of this story that sets it apart from the others. The focus of the work is the human character and state, not action and history. This is an older writing style, and the author makes a compassionate analysis of human weakness, without being picky and offering no excuse for bad moral behavior...

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world...

This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and „The Sleeper” finds himself in a remarkable predicament – he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary...

Pierwsza w Polsce książka o naszej przyszłości po izolacji. Anatomia pęknięcia Michała Protasiuka jest jak literacka odsłona brytyjskiego serialu Black Mirror . Zanurzamy się w rzeczywistość zdominowaną przez nowe technologie. Podzielony internet, rządzące nami algorytmy i bańki filtrujące – to tematy, wokół których Protasiuk buduje fabułę trzymającą w napięciu jak znakomity thriller. Ta literatura,...