Comments on: A Sci-Fi book about Belarus. Impossible? Think again! http://www.wrongways.com/a-sci-fi-book-about-belarus-impossible-think-again Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:32:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: xela http://www.wrongways.com/a-sci-fi-book-about-belarus-impossible-think-again#comment-12400 xela Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:38:27 +0000 http://www.wrongways.com/?p=59#comment-12400 Hm... sounds like a pretty intersting book. Maybe I should get a copy... though I how so much stuff to read...ugh... Hm… sounds like a pretty intersting book. Maybe I should get a copy… though I how so much stuff to read…ugh…

]]> By: Lee Hogan http://www.wrongways.com/a-sci-fi-book-about-belarus-impossible-think-again#comment-11228 Lee Hogan Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:33:44 +0000 http://www.wrongways.com/?p=59#comment-11228 I hate to tell you -- my novel isn't actually about Belarus. Another Belarussian citizen read it after it came out and hated it to pieces. I regret this, it wasn't my intention to insult anyone. But I suspect part of the problem is that he didn't quite understand that the novel is set more than 20,000 years in the future, on a distant planet (named Belarus by the rich guys who developed it because they didn't want to name yet another world "New Russia." The characters in the novel know about as much truthful human history as we do about people who lived 20,000 years ago. So, even though some of them have good intentions, they're wrong about a lot of stuff. To me, this is what makes a story interesting, people screwing up because of their flaws and misconceptions. Anyway, it's a science fiction novel. The reason it's so cheap is because it's out of print. I hate to tell you — my novel isn’t actually about Belarus. Another Belarussian citizen read it after it came out and hated it to pieces. I regret this, it wasn’t my intention to insult anyone. But I suspect part of the problem is that he didn’t quite understand that the novel is set more than 20,000 years in the future, on a distant planet (named Belarus by the rich guys who developed it because they didn’t want to name yet another world “New Russia.” The characters in the novel know about as much truthful human history as we do about people who lived 20,000 years ago. So, even though some of them have good intentions, they’re wrong about a lot of stuff. To me, this is what makes a story interesting, people screwing up because of their flaws and misconceptions.

Anyway, it’s a science fiction novel. The reason it’s so cheap is because it’s out of print.

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