Jana Plauchová

Jana Plauchová is a careful writer. She starts writing only when she has the entire story throughout.^[7][8] She considers characters emotions just as important as scientific accuracy in sci fi writing.^[2] Even though her novels commonly contain extraterrestrial characters, she does not believe in the existence of the life outside Earth.^[9]

Plauchová completed her first manuscript as a 17 year old but did not consider it of sufficient quality for publication. Her first published novel Zero kelvin, published in 2012 was her fifth completed manuscript.^[3] In spite of the book's critical and commercial success, Plauchová was not happy with the quality of the editing and published a new edition of the book in 2022.^[10] Following her first novel, she followed with three additional novels - The eternity of errors (2013), The Introduction to Chaos Theory (2016), and The Second Planet (2019).^[3] As of 2023, she is working on the sequel to Zero Kelvin. In addition to writing novels, Plauchová writes short stories, popular science articles and edits the Slovak language Wikipedia.^[10][11]

According to the literary publicist Lucia Lackovičová, Plauchová is the only notable contemporary sci-fi writer in Slovakia.^[12] Fantasy writer Alexandra Pavelková referred to Plauchová as the best hard sci-fi author in the country.^[13]