There will be those who will scream, this is the best book that. Read and those who will scream that this is a terrible graphomania, stop writing altogether, this is the opinion of colleagues who also write, support them, criticize them, this is very important , and thats exactly why they existed before, all sorts of seminars where Young Authors gathered to write under the guidance of masters such as snegov , belenkin, strugatsky, well, there are many of our wonderful writers there, they studied under the guidance of these writers, they sort of trained, uh, they understood that they were good , which is bad, this tradition was broken for a long time, for at least 20 years, now we have revived it, we held the first such workshop in the fantastic city of korolev near moscow, and 36 people gathered from all over the country, uh, they came , they saw for the first time that there are similar people nearby, people who are completely passionate about this, communicated during the week, studied, analyzed each others texts, lecturers came, that is, it was such a cauldron where they boiled, and i just saw that when they left, they are still seething, they continue to communicate, argue, show each other fragments, when your hero is born, you, as a psychotherapist, well, as a psychologist, build him up and or he himself begins to live in this world, well, i usually climb into it, its like avatar, that is, i invent some kind of world, some kind of situation, lets say, lets say, lets say, in the world there are passages to other worlds, through which you can tell some interesting, smart story, this is a book by spector, that is , aliens arrived and installed portals to other planets everywhere. But in order to pass, you need to tell Something Interesting and smart, here is the main character, so he has this ability, so he travels between worlds, and accordingly, from this idea a kind of general framework grows, and then you begin to add some, well as you know, its like a stained glass window, theres this general one stained glass mask, and then you start filling it with multicolored pieces of glass, you get some kind of general picture, so at the beginning you need to. Come up with some kind of this frame, this mesh, so thin that holds everything, and then insert multicolored pieces of glass there , put it correctly, it will be beautiful , i am roman karmanov, and i am elena kiper, we continue to talk lukyanenko, to what extent social networks really control us now, are we capable and should, for example, give up at least some. From them, i think of course you need to distance yourself, because, you see, there is such a cumulative effect, the accumulation of surrounding opinions , a person goes online, he has some views, he involuntarily finds likeminded people, they begin to support these views, and the person very quickly becomes radicalized, so he is from moderate some position on some issue, it quickly. Level , which is not good, so of course, you need to control yourself, on the network, understand that it, the network, it also influences you, now there are already 615 Million People visit metaworlds and live there, but there is good news, comrades, wait , let me reassure you, 2 days ago i read that meta universes are losing popularity sharply, investors are stopping investing money in them, and so on. People refuse, no, no, im sure its unlikely that the scribes paid for it, this, this is inferior virtuality, it cant drag on like that, you can say as much as you like that look how beautiful my place is. How many rooms are there, peacocks walk around the pools, but at the same time everyone generally understands that he is sitting on a sagging sofa, and he has and they are building some kind of virtual palaces, but i would agree only partly, because children are born with gadgets in their hands, for them these universes are already sewn into them, they know how to separate, it seems to me that they know how, i in any case, i look at my children, i have the feeling that they are just the current generation, they have a calmer, healthier attitude towards all this, for our generation, this a little caused the appearance of all this kind of conditional virtuality of networks, it was a kind of shock, many just how we turned out at the depths and began to choke, for the next generation there, maybe born at the beginning of 2000, but yes, it was such a very fullfledged environment they were there with. They splashed around in it, but the current one, now it fits somehow differentiated, that is, i was convinced many times that children grab, say, some kind of box with a board game, lay out some figures, cards there on half the table, so they play it with no less, or even much more pleasure than in some network games, but if they offer all the feelings, i ask forgiveness, all the feelings, but how do you yourself react to the appearance of various new products . Do you go to explore whats there or do you generally tune out from it . No, well, i like some things, i go and research some things, i reject some things, i just understand that i dont need it, theres an interesting gadget, an interesting technology, then i think, so to speak , where i will use this remark. Well, im trying to approach it more sensibly. And here is the universe of sergei lukyanenko. Many formats are being launched, i would call it in the creative industries, we call the creative industry, and interpreting creatively. There are films created based on your books, but how the screenwriters and directors negotiate with you, how easy it is not for you to work with them, but for them to work with you, this is interesting to me. Of course, you should ask them, because i will now say , yes, a golden man, but no, in fact, i always try to be understanding, especially towards the director, because the director who undertakes to film Science Fiction in our country is already in some kind of at least, well, if not a saint, then a great martyr, that is, a person who, in general, took on something very complex and very poorly developed in our country, if. In the west and even in the east all this has already been put into production of Science Fiction films, then here we have it its just now getting off the ground, but luckily its already started, so im usually patient with all failures and some of the directors own initiatives, screenwriters, you know, im also a screenwriter myself, i write. Mostly of course on your own things, well, sometimes on other peoples, here on the other day i literally made a script based on one project that was not mine, but i really liked it from the very beginning, and i joined it so much, i hope that it will be made, unfortunately, i cant name anything specifically, yeah, well, how did it happen that when with all our luggage, soviet Science Fiction, we have squandered Science Fiction so much and in the end we are forced to catch up with it. Also now, when Science Fiction itself is most in demand in all types of creative industries, be it computer games, board games, books, films, tv series, whatever, well, we have Science Fiction was very cut off from the western world, from the entire huge layer of american, english fiction, that is, thank god stanislav lem and other meters were available there, but not everything, and accordingly, when it poured into. In general, i choked in it , he began to actively read western authors, abandoned ours for a while, ours floundered, many began to simply imitate, take some examples, its good when there are worthy examples and try to work in this vein, that is, there was such a fair subsidence, in 2000 years, straightened out, firstly, our reader returned, he realized that not everything that is written there is good, it turned out that, after all , like everywhere else, 90 is. Rubbish and accordingly began to look at our authors, who are still. They write about our people, in our reality, i realized that this is also interesting , since about 2000, maybe since 2005, in my opinion there has been such a definite revival of our fiction, its rise, i think that it is in second place in the world, it firmly occupies how ready you are for young creators and directors to come and ask film, try to film your books, that is, either parts or, say, something that they define for themselves, that they can take on, this is a whole story, intellectual property, licenses, agree, somehow get in, well look, there are several options here, firstly, there is such a concept when they dont. Theyre shooting some kind of short film, they usually turn to me, ask permission, i say, okay, shoot, well, sometimes i say, okay, pay 1 ruble, that is, this is also an opportunity, yes, well, that is, this is not an exclusive thing, it s just an opportunity for people to train, work out, sometimes it turns out well, sometimes not so well, but something works out. There are situations that are somewhat different, for example, i have romans autumn visits, i love him very much, he is so old, hes already 30 years old, and i offered him several times for film adaptation and no one took him, although he is very simple for film adaptation, but he so serious, heavy, and apparently this somehow scared everyone away, they approached me in vladivostok four years ago two young vladivostok cinematographers. They say, sergei vasilyevich, they would really like to film it, i say, guys, no one will take it, everyone is afraid, ill give it to you, only you show what you can do, they say, okay, well show you, a year has passed, i m back in vladivostok, they ran up to me with a laptop, they opened it, they showed me, they filmed two scenes from the book, i looked, i thought, wow, how did it happen, they acted well, and so on, it turned out that they attracted locals. Vladivostok actors with fresh , unworn faces who played in general absolutely on a public initiative, so to speak, our own, that is, they played for nothing and played during nonworking hours, i see everything is fine, i say, guys, okay, heres one ruble to pay, in my opinion they didnt have a ruble with them, they found it and signed it , no, the contract was signed normally, they found a chinese yuan coin, paid one yuan. Filmed, yes, they filmed, they filmed an eightepisode series , postproduction is now underway, in my opinion, six episodes out of eight, they have already shoveled it for the second time, the last time everything was there abruptly they tightened it up, shortened it, recorded the music, there are good effects, there is excellent acting, it turned out to be a normal eightepisode, fantastic series, how do you feel about the discussion that we dont have good scripts, we dont have good texts, we dont have good ones. We dont have any writers, and we dont have any good films either, no, we, uh, lets put it this way, we have to separate it, we have a lot of good Science Fiction, we have a lot of good plots, in the end, we have a lot of everything, thats with we really have a problem with the writers, the only thing i can say is this is a problem, in fact , that is happening all over the world now. I think that the problem is largely caused by the fact that films are now produced by producers. On the one hand, this is understandable, the producer gives money, he doesnt want to take risks, on the other hand, the screenwriter wrote the text, the script, everyone seems to say, okay, then the producer comes and says, yes, everything is great, but you know, add here a girl, heres a fight, here put a corpse, well, the screenwriter starts pulling out his curls, adds a girl here, here a corpse, here a fight, everything goes, then comes the director says no, well, we need to redo it a little. You know, in such and such a film it was very good, and adds Something Else , as a result, a film appears that was not shot according to a script written by the screenwriter, but just such a composite, and an attraction, im in one script , when i was tormented so much, they said, but here we need some kind of bright, unusual spectacle, and the action took place in a medieval city, and i wrote, i say, in the background there is a large procession of dwarf fireeaters juggling with multicolored clubs, i started inserting things like this, was it removed . No, it wasnt filmed, unfortunately, it was interesting. Our guest is a great soviet Science Fiction writer, and a russian one, yes, now, he was watching an overthetop american series , which means that somehow there was such a plot, a person who thinks that he is talented or not talented, he has the opportunity eat a pill, and if he is really talented, his talents reveal. He begins to write with terrible force, and if not talented, turns into a vampire, generally begins to walk around like a zombie and eat people, at the dawn of your activity, when you realized that you can basically eat a pill already, well, in fact, a writer, when he even wrote his first story, he should be in general , i am sure that he is a genius, at least potentially, without this, without this, you cannot do this work, because well see. On the shelf of bookstores and you will feel bad and you will think what am i doing, why am i still writing something, so much has already been written, but in a good way, it was probably book, atomic dream, i had this old, old story, written, i think, when i was 20 years old, when i wrote it, i suddenly realized that it was more or less good, i realized that i was succeeding , and for myself i somehow noted this with such joy. Then there were several more such works, there were autumn visits, after which i realized that i had written a good novel, there was a spectrum and several more books, that is, every time there is a certain stage, you write some kind of book, and you think, im great, i took some kind of peak for myself, and a pill you can eat again, and now young people ask you the question of how to make money, they ask, of course, they ask, that the scheme when a person works all day and sits in the evening and writes something, well, somehow even in his youth he can , to go for a ride, when a person is already 3040 years old, then in the evening he still wants to relax a little, and not take up a second job, writing is also work, i now simply advise everyone and say go, do electronic publishing, because young people, now he really likes this reading format reading from a tablet, from a phone, and so on, there are a lot of sites where authors are exhibited like this, and there people pay, well , the person announces a subscription, says, here i am writing a novel, read three chapters there for free, if you like, there for 50 rubles you will read to the end, there or for 100, who evaluates their work, as a result , some authors become super popular, earn big, really big money, but here there is another danger, because the reader, he is such a person, who wants everything its time to get what he already liked, heres a young author, he wrote his novel, everyone there shouted hurray, the man suddenly made money, hes 20 years old there, he wrote a book, he earned more there in a couple of months than his dad earns in a year, his eyes are burning, hes screaming, now ill write a book, the reader is screaming, no, we like it, write a sequel, the man actually has no ideas, a continuation, but he has to, he sits down, writes a second book, so , now i ll write a new one, no, he writes a third, after which he says to himself, no, ill write it anyway new, im a writer, he writes a completely new plot, all his faithful readers say ugh, this is not at all what we wanted, and he sees that he is a financial failure, as a result a person begins to earn money, a young author, but he im forced to work purely at the request of the public, you always write what you feel , want, what torments you, almost always, i tried a couple of times to work, lets say, to order, usually it was connected with some kind of computer games, that is, people create a computer game, its interesting, they have the thought arises, if a famous writer writes a novel about our. It will be even more popular , yes, it works in principle, but when you write such a novel to order, you are convinced, motivated, you sit and write, but you feel that in general, you are still doing, not what you wanted , this is a very unpleasant feeling, i wrote books like this a couple of times, well, i dont really want to repeat it, there is a recipe for how many hours a day you need to invest. Well, there is such a good rule to write at least a little every day, at least half a page, at least a page, to be honest, even if a person writes a page, every day one page of computer text or word, he will write a couple of novels a year. Stephen king banned several of his works from film adaptation, not only from film adaptation, but from theater productions. They were connected with the fact that children , just like in american schools, over the past 10 years these cases have been repeated, murders have been committed against children, and he prohibited, categorically did not give anyone permission, but do you have such . No, i know what were talking about, king has it several stories, specifically about teenagers who carried out a School Shooting there, to be honest, i didnt write such things, but in general, i dont think these books by king are the best, well, lets go back to the industry , after all, yes, its really a western industry for some time captured our market, but it is quite obvious that now it has partially receded, but has subsided along with interest. Our citizens too, that is, they continue to look for western, western tv series, western films and so on, like, do we need to make some extra efforts to bring this attention back inside the country to our native soil, to our Science Fiction, our tv series, our films and so on, it seems to me that any such film production, game production, production of highquality music, is, strictly speaking, also production, this is a product that can be sold, earned, in the worst case, the money simply remained within the country, in the best, it is also an export product, that is , it is worth supporting at least starting from this, in fact, in the same serial production, it seems to me that we have now reached quite a decent parity, we are not always pulling out in terms of special effects, in terms of technology, this is understandable, because we invest smaller amounts, but in terms of actors in plots, we are already quite successful and there are a number of projects, again i wont name which people watch with delight and they are ahead of some western analogues, but if we continue the topic, then go to foreign territories with our films, our meanings, with our books, to what extent is this also necessary and is there any how . Well, it seems to me that there is something, i can say, say, about myself, i dont know , now i think that much less will be published in europe, uh, but in fact, they are publishing now and there are still proposals, everything is very active is going to the east, china, there is a lot of interest there, there is interest in our c