High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rafa Aleksander Ziemkiewicz (born September 13, 1964) is a Polish political fiction and science fiction author and journalist. During his studies at the University of Warsaw (Polish language and literature) in 1984 he joined SFAN science fiction fan association and started writing short stories. His first science-fiction short story (Z palcem na spu cie) was published in 1982. His book debut was W adca szczurów (Warsaw), (1987). He also worked for two Polish science-fiction magazines: Fantastyka (1986 1990) and as a chief editor for Fenix (1990 1994).