Konrad Fiałkowski

Konrad Fiałkowski (born December 29, 1939 in Lublin ) is a Polish computer scientist and writer .

Life

Konrad Fiałkowski attended high school in his hometown, won the Physics Olympiad in 1957 and was already involved in the development of professional computer programs in 1959 at the age of twenty. In 1962 he completed his electronics studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology and received his doctorate there in 1964. After his habilitation in 1966, he conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania , headed a research institute from 1975-1981 and was full professor in Warsaw from 1981. He later lived in Vienna . From 1996 until his retirement in 2007 he was a professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy .

He is a member of the IEEE and has authored more than eighty scientific publications and books.

In the field of science fiction he made his debut in 1956 in the weekly newspaper Dookoła Świata . Since then he has published numerous short stories, which up until 1979 dealt mainly with wonderful inventions and technical innovations. His only two novels, Homo Divisus (1979) and Adam, One of Us (1986), leave this narrow range of topics and turn to virtual realities and a reinterpretation of the New Testament.

Translations of his works are available in English, Bulgarian, Czech, French, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Hungarian and Italian.

bibliography

• Wróble Galaktyki (1963, short stories)
• Poprzez piąty wymiar (1967, short stories)
• Włókno Claperiusa (1969, short stories)
• Witalizacja kosmogatora (1978, short stories)
• Homo divisus (1979, novel)
  • German: Homo divisus . Science fiction novel, German by Maria Kurecka. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1980. Additional edition: Homo divisus . Roman, German by Hubert Schumann. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1982. (New translation for the GDR, Kompass-Bücherei Vol. 298)
• Adam, each z nas (1986, novel)
  • German: Adam, one of us . Science fiction novel, German by Hanna Rottensteiner. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1982.

German-language collections

• The fifth dimension and other fantastic narratives . Translated from the Polish by Christa Schubert-Consbruch and Johannes Jankowiak, illustrations by Werner Ruhner . Publishing house Culture and Progress, Berlin 1971. ( kap , vol. 112)
• The fifth dimension. Utopian stories. Illustrations by Ruth Knorr. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1971 (not identical to the title mentioned above).
• Alone in the cosmos . Science fiction stories, German by Christa and Johannes Jankowiak. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1977.
• with Rafał Kosik: Star City. Stories from Mars. Photos by Anna Lehmann-Brauns. Edition FotoTAPETA, Berlin / Warsaw 2007, ISBN 978-3-940524-03-4 .

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 154.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 438.
• Karsten Kruschel : A cold wind is blowing from this novel. On Konrad Fialkowski's book “Homo divisus”. In: Volksstimme. Magdeburg, November 18, 1982.

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Fiałkowski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Konrad Fiałkowski in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Konrad Fiałkowski at Open Library
• Konrad Fiałkowski (short biography, Polish, accessed February 12, 2018)