[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.
[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.
In an interview (Czas Fantastyki, no.3, 2011) the writer, being a sociologist, said "I thought that the most important things about the world in which I lived could not be described within the conventions of sociology".
The Apostezjon trilogy is a thought experiment addressing the question: what would have happened if the Communist society had achieved economic success.
[5] In the autobiography Światy równoległe, Wnuk-Lipiński writes that Lech Jęczmyk of Czytelnik upon reading the manuscript of Wir pamięci judged it to be "better than Orwell".