Marek Huberath: Nest of Worlds

Huberath is a three-time winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, the Polish equivalent of the Hugo; Nest of Worlds was awarded the prize in 1999 and is considered one of the most important works of Polish science fiction of that decade. He has won the Śląkfa Award twice, for short fiction.

As a professor of biophysics and biological physics at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Huberath studies abiosis and cryptobiosis in organisms; technical applications of DNA in opto-electronics; and residual water in dry tissues of plants, animals, and humans. He is an avid mountaineer.

MICHAEL KANDEL was a Fulbright student in Poland, 1966-67; taught Russian literature at George Washington University; received his PhD in Slavic at Indiana University; translated Polish writer Stanislaw Lem for Harcourt; wrote a few articles on Lem; worked as an editor at Harcourt, where he acquired authors Jonathan Lethem, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Morrow, and others; has written science fiction, short stories, and a few novels (Bantam, St. Martin’s); and is presently an editor at the Modern Language Association. He is the editor and translator of the anthology A Polish Book of Monsters .

Copyright © 2014 Marek S. Huberath.

Translation copyright © 2014 Michael Kandel

Digital edition published by Restless Books, 2014.

ISBN: 978-0-9899832-7-3

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