Editing Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg

{{Short description|Polish writer}}
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'''Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg''' (1 January 1937 – 30 August 1995) was a Polish [[science fiction author]], born in [[Płock]], Poland.

Although unpopular during his life, after his suicide he became recognized as one of the most significant authors of Polish SF.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ksiazki.wp.pl/adam-wisniewski-snerg-6150147474081921c|title=Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg|last=S.A|first=Wirtualna Polska Media|date=14 April 2010|website=ksiazki.wp.pl|language=pl|access-date=5 February 2019}}</ref>

His novel ''Robot'' was first published in English in 2021 in a translation by Tomasz Mirkowicz, who died in 2003. He was the prototype of Sneer, the main character of ''[[Limes inferior]]'', one of the novels by [[Janusz A. Zajdel]].

== Publications ==

* ''Robot'' ("Robot") (1973)
* ''Według łotra'' ("According, to the Thief") (Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 1978)
* ''Nagi cel'' ("The Naked Target") (1980)
* ''Arka'' ("The Ark") (Czytelnik, Warszawa 1989)
* ''Jednolita teoria czasoprzestrzeni'' ("The Uniform Theory of the Spacetime") (1990)<ref>[http://snerg.lh2.pl/dziela/jtc/jtc.pdf ''Jednolita teoria czasoprzestrzeni''] (retrieved 16 February 2020)</ref>
**A non-science fiction book, in which the author presents his vision of the "[[General Theory of Everything]]", i.e., the unifying theory for  all physical aspects of the universe. This theory was not taken seriously by physicists.<ref>Jan Czerniawski, [http://niniwa22.cba.pl/swiat_wedlug_snerga.htm "Świat według Snerga"], ''[[Nowa Fantastyka]]'', July 1991</ref><ref>Lech Keller, [https://www.academia.edu/41989171/ACTA_LEMIANA_MONASHIENSIS_SPECIAL_STANISLAS_LEM_EDITION_OF_ACTA_POLONICA_MONASHIENSIS_PRZYCZYNEK_DO_BIOGRAFII_STANIS%C5%81AWA_LEMA_CONTRIBUTION_TO_BIOGRAPHY_OF_STANISLAS_LEM_VOLUME_3_NUMBER_2?auto=download "Przyczynek do biografii Stanisława Lema"]  (retrieved 16 February 2020), Acta Polonica Monashiensis (Monash University: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Volume 3 Number 2, R&S Press, Melbourne, Vic., 2019, p. 9</ref>

Posthumous

* "ORO" ("ORO") (Amber, Warszawa 1997)
* "Trzecia cywilizacja" ("The Third Civilization") (C&T, Toruń 1998)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{isfdb name|id=166381|name=Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg}}

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