Vid Pečjak is a Slovene author

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 and psychologist

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Pečjak was born in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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, Slovenia

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. He has written 90 books, two thirds from the field of psychology

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. Most of his literary works are science fiction

Science fiction

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 stories

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, novel

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s, novelette

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s and also travel diaries and strip

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s. Some of his works were written under his pseudonym

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 Div Kajčep (palindrome

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 of his name).

Pečjak is perhaps best known for his SF novel for children and youth Drejček in trije marsovčki (Drejček and Three Little Martians) (1961), which concerns a little boy named Drejček (Andy) who meets three little Martian

Martian

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