Rozpad_połowiczny
Apostezjon is social science fiction dystopia trilogy by Polish sociologist and science fiction writer Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński. It consists of three novels, Wir pamięci (1979, "Memory Vortex"), Rozpad połowiczny (1988, "Half-Life", literally: "Half-Decay"), and Mord założycielski (1989, "The Founding Murder").[1] The overall story covers the dynamics of Apostezjon (from Greek word ἀποστάσιον, "apostasion"), a totalitarian island-state governed by the technocratic clandestine supreme governing body "Team of Experts" with its executive organ, the powerful Special Service, up to its collapse into a dictatorship after a coup staged by the deputy chief of the Special Service.[2]
Rozpad połowiczny received the 1988 Janusz A. Zajdel Award for the best Polish science-fiction novel.[3][4]
In 2000, SuperNowa published the single-volume edition of the trilogy, with restored parts of text which were removed by censorship in Communist Poland.