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He travels the whole world in pursuit of solar eclipses, and spends two months of the year above the Arctic Circle hunting the northern lights. At the same time, from the home observatory, he brings the universe closer to over two hundred thousand people who follow him online. He made a way of life out of infecting others with his astronomical passion. He has organized some of the world's largest collaborative observations of the night sky and many other popular science events. Frequent guest of television and radio programs. He hosted popular science programs on Discovery Science and TVN Turbo. Over the years, he has been associated with numerous planetariums and science centers throughout Poland. Currently, he reveals the secrets of the Arctic to others during expeditions to observe the Northern Lights. Winner of the Science Popularizer 2015 award granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Polish Press Agency.

Time spent on homework was regularly wasted reading books. Laziness and making unrealistic dreams meant that he did not get any sensible profession and now he has to live on 500+ collected for his offspring and writing fantasy. We're displaying him at the convention as a deterrent to your children and other young rascals.

Writer and polyglot. Linguist by educations, simultaneous interpreter by profession, military history and cultural anthropology fan by sheer passion. The quickest pen – or rather, keyboard – of the Polish fantasy and science-fiction arena. His debut was in 2013, and since then he’s been literally swarming the publisher with a wholesale of a minimum of three books every year. His ever-expanding range of subjects varies from military topics to psychological thrillers, grotesque, thriller, historical fiction and pure-breed, juicy fantasy. Books are literally dripping down his fingers so fast he can’t actually remember how many he’s published already. As if that were not enough, for some time he has been involved in the doings of two gamedev companies: Sylen Studio and Red Square Games, dealing in production of RPG, board and video games based upon his ever broadened, deepened and stretched literary universes. Incomparable speaker and panelist, capable of running a flawless, non-repetitive one-hour-long lecture on virtually any subject – be it the formation of criminal organizations in the early post-Soviet era, back to the siege techniques of Ancient Babylon. First owner, original box and manual included, almost mint condition. A bargain, that’s what he is!

On a daily basis, he deals with being a husband and father. He received the Nike Award, the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, Jerzy Żuławski Award, New Fantasy Award and European Science Fiction Society Award in the Best Written Work of Fiction category. Last year, the first volume of his trilogy "Agla" was published. "Alef", which received the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature Award. Second volume this year.

Born 1962 in Łosice. Illustrator, co-founder and graphic editor of the literary magazine "FENIX". Author of book illustrations, storyboard artist, author of comics, creator of visualizations of the ludic anti-hero Jakub Wędrowycz. In his few spare moments, a connoisseur of family and social life.

Author of a scientific monograph entitled The boundaries of the body. Somapoetics in the works of Stanisław Lem and several dozen scientific and literary critical articles dealing with Polish contemporary literature. He conducts classes in Polish contemporary literature, literary criticism, fantasy and science fiction literature, and methodology of teaching Polish as a foreign language. Collaborator of several literary magazines, e.g. "New Books", "New Inscription" and "Topos". Juror in literary competitions. In his research work, he deals with Polish science fiction and fantasy literature as well as Polish literary criticism. He also works as a teacher of Polish as a foreign language. In 2022, he made his debut as a writer with a collection of fantasy stories entitled Grants and dragons. He publishes his stories in anthologies and magazines. Winner of the Chrysalis Award of the European Science Ficton Association for the most promising debuts, nominated for Śląkfa 2023 in the Creator of the Year category, nominated for the Polish Fandom Award. Janusz Zajdel. This year, his book devoted to the work of Jacek Dukaj will be published.