Limes inferior
First sentence
Sponad wody wstawała subtelna mgiełka — delikatny woal dający miękkość zarysowi miasta, którego panorama wyglądała stąd jak wąska, szara wstążka, u góry postrzępiona w fantazyjne ząbki i rozpostarta wzdłuż granicy wody i nieba...
Description
Limes inferior (Latin for lower limit) is a social science fiction dystopian novel written in 1982 by the Polish author Janusz A. Zajdel. Limes inferior, one of Zajdel's best known works, is a dystopia showing a grim vision of a future society resulting from a merger of the two systems competing at the time - communism and capitalism. It is a seemingly free society, which is in fact tightly controlled through a system of electronic biometric ID cards (Keys), censored media and other forms of social control. It was recognized as the best science fiction novel in Poland in 1982. credit