Editing Janusz Zajdel (section)

==Themes==
Zajdel's early works, from the 1960s and early 1970s, focuses on scientific inventions and their role in space exploration, alien contact or artificial intelligence.<ref name=culture/><ref name=sfe/> As his writing career continued, however, his stories evolved to focus on the social aspects and often negative consequences of those inventions.<ref name=culture/> Over time, a theme became increasingly visible in his works - a concern over dangers inherent in attempts to control the human society.<ref name=culture/> He is also condemning human ignorance, warning against [[xenophobia]], and asking philosophical questions about the nature of the universe, happiness and human destiny.<ref name=culture/> Zajdel's works from his second period - late 1970s and 1980s - and represent the genres of [[social fiction|social]] and [[dystopian fiction]].<ref name=culture/> In his works, he envisions [[totalitarianism|totalitarian states]] and societies living under extreme forms of [[mass surveillance]].<ref name=culture/>

His works are also recognized as being a critique of the totalitarian, communist state, a reality of his life in [[People's Republic of Poland]]. Science fiction genre, with its outer-worldly, clearly fictional, and often [[allegorical]] setting and [[koalang|invented jargon]] was able to debate fundamentals of such systems with frankness that more mainstream literature would not be allowed to.<ref name=culture/>