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Rafał Kosik
2008/05/11
He was born on 8 October 1971 in Warsaw.
He is incomplete architect. After third year he gave up studies at Technical University of Warsaw to set up his own company – an advertising agency Powergraph. In 2004 company started to transform into publishing house.
He’s been writing for a long time, but he emerged as a serious writer with short story “Connecting rooms” published in monthly magazine “Nowa Fantastyka” 9/2001. Then there came several dozen of short stories published mainly in “Nowa Fantastyka” and “Science Fiction”. His debut novel was “Mars” and the most popular of his works is a series of science fiction novels for young people “Felix, Net & Nika”. Since the middle of 2007 he’s started to consider himself a full-time writer.
He write to fulfill the need of telling stories. However he believe that reading should be pleasure in the first place. If the story is to be boring, it’s better not to share it with the world at all. Serious message should be delivered in reader-friendly way. He value Lem, Dick and King both for the thought behind their stories and for the atmosphere they were able to create. Good literature is a friend, not a burden.
What do he write? The stories he would like to read himself - both science fiction and horror and preferably the mix of these two genres. He is not interested in describing the reality as it is. It should be left to the chronicles.