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It’s been almost four years since I started using artificial intelligence. It’s practically part of my life: I’m an AI champion at my company, I code with AI, and I use it for correspondence and server maintenance. Just now, it…
Stanisław Lem: Solaris Kelvin arrives at a space station, and the first thing he meets is a corpse. His old mentor, Gibarian, by his own hand. The station is wrong: doors that shouldn’t be locked, a scientist who won’t come…
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed I set out to read ninety-nine science fiction novels in three years, strictly from a writer’s point of view. I wanted to enjoy them. The whole project is turning into a new series of…
We call it the “Little Hungarian Absurd.” It is a specific regional flavor of existence where grand, transatlantic ambitions collide with the reality of a basement startup, usually resulting in a situation that is tragic for the participants but hilarious…
It finally happened. After years of submitting stories to magazines that never open attachments and agents who vanish into polite vapor, Stephen King himself has reached out to me. At least, that’s what Gmail thought — right before shoving his message straight…
Let’s be honest: as writers, we love free things. A good pen, a found notebook, and, of course, free software. For years, I was (and I am) a devoted fan of LibreOffice (and OpenOffice before it). After all, what more…
It happened yesterday. An award ceremony for a national literary prize in Hungary, for which I was a finalist. The event was in a distant city, so I turned the whole trip into a romantic surprise for my wife: a…
September 28, 2025. 7:05 AM. I closed my laptop and stared at the word count: 102,333. The final line of my novel—Ördögszaltó or Brimstone Management—hung in the dawn-lit room, vibrating like an overused nerve. They never tell you what it…
Welcome to Lemondrilla 🍋🦍 So yes — this is supposed to be the “Hello world!” post. But let’s be honest: the world isn’t always that friendly. Most of the time, it just says NO and slams the door. That’s why…
