Paradyzja

Paradyzja (English: Paradise, the World in Orbit) is a 1984 science fiction novel by Polish writer Janusz A. Zajdel. It is a dystopian novel similar to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The space colonies are more or less federated with the Earth. Human rights are observed and respected everywhere, but Paradise has not been verified for sure. The main hero, writer Rinah Devi, is sent from Earth to Paradise to research that and the tragic death of a Terran sent to Paradise ten years before. Officially, though, the purpose of his visit is to write about Paradise. It was recognized as the best science fiction novel of the year in Poland in 1984. In the Polish People's Republic, it was widely understood as a metaphor for the USSR: omnipotent state security services and propaganda, single state ideology and forced labour.