The article focuses on Polish writer, Teodor Parnicki, and his concept of historical fantasy presented in his science fiction novels. "AETIUS, THE LAST ROMAN," Parnicki's first novel won him a travel scholarship and he also worked as cultural attaché in the Polish embassy in the Soviet Union in 1941. Polish literary critiques dismiss Parnicki's work, but the author differs stating that his works belongs to the genre of fantasy.