Péter Zsoldos

The book explores the attempts of artificial intelligences abandoned by Man to uncover their origins and, ultimately, to rediscover mankind.

Influenced by Aldous Huxley and Aleksey Tolstoy, his ambition had been to become a writer since the age of fifteen.

In The Mission, he describes an even closer contact: the dead astronauts' personalities revive in the brains of inhabitants of the distant planet, thus creating an exciting coexistence of differently evolved intellects sharing one body.

Later, Counterpoint leads to an age after the annihilation of human civilization where self-developing robots attempt to find their origins, relying on faint memories and doubtful speculations.

Like Stanisław Lem, he became critical of the perceived negative impact of the popularity of science fiction in the mid-1980s, of what he saw as the dilution of the genre and the subculture that appeared with it, which he said were, among other things, "smuggling in horror and pornography and making pseudo-scientific myths".