“Wait: here’s what we wrote. But few glad,” he opened the round table of science fiction writers in the framework of the XV St. Petersburg International book salon online Sergei Lukyanenko. – How are we going to get out of this situation? From a medical point of view, everything will be fine – you will find a vaccine, learn to treat. But with everything else not so happy. After pandemic the world will be different, we have much to reconsider and rethink”.
science fiction Writer Vadim Panov did not expect that his books will suddenly become modern prose. But his predictions are quite optimistic: “We will emerge from the pandemic stronger than it was. It’s human nature: we know how to survive.”
But the Roman Zlotnikov proposes not to relax and prepare for the next epidemic that will surely have, and more than once. Agree with him and Kirill Benediktov. He even found his own, almost fantastic explanation of what is happening: viruses have declared war on humanity. At least, so he reconsidered the present in his story for the literary project “Postepidemic”.
“Some of the events suggests a conscious activity of this virus. You can, of course, to assume that this is some kind of villains launched an artificial virus, but it would be too easy. So I suggested that the viruses lived on earth long before the cell of living organisms. And now they are fighting for their existence.”
But in fact its story is not about the insidious virus, and the doctor and the volunteers. “Their heroism, enthusiasm, and willingness to sacrifice themselves for the sake of patients – a crucial factor that allows you to win over any virus, even reasonable,” said Benedict.
Grisham also wrote the story for the project “Postepidemic”. “You could write about anything – past, future or present. But we all agree: let’s not write the dill. No zombies in the streets and the remaining handful of people fighting over the last pack of the drug,” he says.
he added that, when the going gets truly tough times, people need optimistic stories and good predictions, and horror and post-Apocalypse is better left to better times.
“We have for too long lived with the belief that life will get better and better: the progress, medicine develops. A pandemic forced everybody to remember that access to the sparkling heights is not guaranteed. But, it is not banal sounds, to survive will help the optimistic attitude and faith in what humanity will cope with any challenge,” said the Benedictine.
Completing a virtual meeting, Lukyanenko said unexpectedly: “I wish we never had this conversation. Would be better if we gathered to discuss how Elon Max flew to Mars and came back with magnets”.
But seriously, Lukyanenko offers refers to the epidemic as a lesson to all mankind, from which, hopefully, it will make something good. “But now we live in a new way and with caution. So stocking up on masks, anti-plague suits and batteries,” concluded the writer.
