june

Zaczyna się od niespodziewanej śmierci. A później napięcie rośnie dosłownie odbierając oddech, aż do finału, który zaciska się na gardle niczym pętla. Finału, w którym katharsis przeplata się ze stadium szaleństwa a my, nawet poznawszy całą historię, nadal nie jesteśmy pewni, kto jest ofiarą a kto czarnym charakterem. A może, jak w życiu, w tej historii nie ma czarnych charakterów i niewinnych ofiar....

Those readers who had been charmed by Otis Adelbert Kline’s swashbuckling sci-fi adventures would not have long to wait before they were treated to that novel’s follow-up thrill ride. „The Thing That Walked in the Rain” provides another interplanetary adventure. Considered by many to be the only true equal of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline was a master of the sword and planet genre. From...

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the sword and sorcery genre. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s most enduring heroes. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howard’s greatest creation, it was in...

The 6th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics took place in Sandomierz from June 25 to July 2, 2016. The primary goal of each of our invited speakers was to give a series of lectures which – in a pedagogical way – introduced selected topics in modern statistical physics with the idea of arriving at open problems. The idea was to inspire the audience to make research related to presented topics. The...