Editing Janusz Zajdel (section)

==Importance==
Zajdel has been described as the second science fiction writer in popularity in Poland after [[Stanisław Lem]].<!--<ref name=tpe/> needs a quotation for verifciation--><ref name=culturequote>{{cite web|url=http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/janusz-andrzej-zajdel|title=Janusz Andrzej Zajdel|work=Culture.pl|access-date=8 October 2014|quote=Uważany za czołowego, obok Stanisława Lema, twórcę polskiej literatury fantastycznonaukowej [Considered a leading, next to Stanisław Lem, creator of Polish science fiction literature]}}</ref> He has also been described as the writer who replaced Lem as the "top Polish SF writer", after "Lem vacated [this position] earlier of his own volition".<ref name="GepfertKozubski2000">{{cite book|author1=Elżbieta Gepfert|author2=Grzegorz Kozubski|author3=Piotr W. Cholewa|title=Anthology: chosen by fate : Zajdel award winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LMcZAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Śląski Klub Fantastyki|isbn=978-83-7054-142-2|page=8|quote=Over the next years came a series of Zajdel novels which elevated him to the top place among Polish SF writers, a position Stanislaw Lem had vacated earlier of his own volition}}</ref>

He is recognized as an originator of the [[social science fiction]] genre in Polish science fiction, known in Poland as the sociological speculative fiction (''fantastyka socjologiczna'').<ref name=culture/><ref name=sfe/><ref name=zajdelarto>{{cite web|url=http://zajdel.art.pl/janusz-a-zajdel/|title=Janusz A. Zajdel|publisher=Nagroda im. Janusza A. Zajdla|access-date=29 September 2014|language=pl|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007073001/http://zajdel.art.pl/janusz-a-zajdel/|archive-date=7 October 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He has been an inspiration to a number of younger Polish science fiction authors such as [[Maciej Parowski]] and [[Marek Oramus]].<ref name=culture/>

His works have been translated into Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Russian and Slovenian.<ref name="sfe">{{cite web |last=Walewski |first=Konrad |title=Authors : Zajdel, Janusz A : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/zajdel_janusz_a |access-date=8 October 2014}}</ref> {{as of|August 2015}}, the only work translated into English is the short story ''Wyjątkowo trudny teren'' ("Particularly Difficult Territory") that Zajdel wrote for the English language ''[[Tales from the Planet Earth]]'' anthology edited by [[Frederik Pohl]] and [[Elizabeth Anne Hull]].<ref name=sfe/>