Author | Jacek Dukaj |
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Original title | Starość aksolotla |
Language | Polish |
Genre | Science-fiction |
Publisher | Allegro |
Publication date | 2015 |
Publication place | Poland |
Media type | digital-only novel |
Pages | 256 |
ISBN | 9788308069394 |
The Old Axolotl (Polish: Starość aksolotla) is a 2015 digital-only novel by Polish science-fiction author Jacek Dukaj. The novel was released in Polish on March 10, 2015, and shortly afterward, on March 24 that year, in English (translated by Stanley Bill). It has been described as "an experiment in reading (and creating) the electronic literature of the future".[1]
It is Dukaj's first novel and his homepage described the work as his "debut in English",[2] though several of his short stories (The Golden Galley, 1996, The Iron General, 2010, The Apocrypha of Lem, 2011) have been translated prior to this.[2]
The novel has inspired two Netflix original series: the 2020 Belgian Into the Night, and its 2022 Turkish language spin-off Yakamoz S-245.[3][4]