Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Marek S. Huberath (pen name, born 1954) is a Polish professor of physics in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. His themes are philosophical, moral and religious: how people become beasts or remain human in extreme circumstances. Many of his stories focus on death. Winner of the Zajdel Award in 1991 for a short story Kara wi ksza and in 1997 for his novel Gniazdo wiatów.