CyberJoly Drim

"CyberJoly Drim" is a cyberpunk short story by Polish author Antonina Liedtke [pl]. In the story, the heroine abandons her body in favour of a digital existence. The story was first published on Liedtke's personal website in 1998 before being reprinted by Fenix magazine in 1999.

The story won the most prestigious Polish award for science fiction and fantasy stories (the Janusz A. Zajdel Award), as well as two others, but was negatively reviewed by several writers connected with the leading Polish science fiction and fantasy magazine, Nowa Fantastyka, which had rejected the story before it was submitted to Fenix. Several critics argued that it had no literary merit and criticized those who nominated it for awards or voted for it in them. Other critics praised its depiction of Internet culture, situating its criticism as a reaction to Internet culture by those unfamiliar with it, as well as arguing that some negative reviews were influenced by the reviewers dislike for the story's author, who was an outsider to the closed, male world of Polish SF literary fandom.