Lone Dragon Pavel Shumil

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Would you like to have a friend for whom "there is no such place - far away"? For whom "nothing is impossible in the world", but only "things that require more or less effort and are accompanied by more or less risk"? A friend who is always ready to help you, who can be a serious and wise scientist and a playful child at the same time? Who can dance sirtaki with equal ease, and rehearse "Suliko" in three voices, and change the culture of an entire nation, and soar high in the sky, carrying you on the back of his neck?

Someone, but Pavel Shumil (through the fault of the publishing house "Tsentrpoligraf" better known as Pavel Shumilov), a talented St. Petersburg science fiction writer, was lucky. He has such friends - these are dragons. And if you have already read his books, then you, probably, too, because it is simply impossible not to feel good feelings for the heroes of this writer.

If, for some incredible reason (after all, in the four years that have passed since the first publication, Pavel Shumilov managed to become a famous figure in Russian science fiction), you hear about this author for the first time, then you have the opportunity to correct this huge mistake!

So, Pavel Shumilov. The personality is deep and extraordinary. There are many rumors and assumptions around him. A person who is well known in Runet, but in reality only a few saw it. A person who arouses considerable interest in his person, but categorically refuses to publish his photographs. Who is he, science fiction writer Pavel Shumilov?

- That was exactly how it was born - to write a story about a dragon with a style of thinking and a set of knowledge of a modern person, who found himself in a feudal world. The story did not work … It turned out to be a romance.

And I began to write because of the acute hunger for information. The fact is that a friend gave me a computer motherboard. And the assembly of the computer around her began. And the prices were biting … the case - $ 30, the keyboard - $ 20, two floppy drives (5 "and 3") - $ 90 … in short, all the money previously spent on books was consumed by the computer. Internet libraries were just in their infancy, there was no CD with books in the project either … For three or four months I was left without reading. I had to start writing myself.

With the second novel (") - no less interesting story. When I wrote the first (" "), I absolutely did not think about the continuation. I wrote what I wanted and how I wanted, generously leaving riddles. And then the idea arose to explain all the absurdities of the described world from the point of view Sci-fi.”To bend over, but explain all the incidents without changing a single line in the first novel. It was difficult … But I did it!

- Not everyone has real prototypes. The sisters - Vpedin, for example, have a prototype. Natalia Nikolaevna. (And she knows about it!) She waited a long time for me to finish "Debt to the View", read it and asked: "Why did you call them Lately? Great girls …"

- It happens to everyone. For example, the novel "Percentage of Compliance" was written very easily … Until the laptop hard drive collapsed. A third of the novel has disappeared. It so happened that I did not copy for a long time. And to do something the second time - for me it is worse than death. Now the Roman moves with a great squeak.

- For today I have about six started, but not finished things. The story "We must love" is moving most actively. Do you know the literary competition "48 hours" on the site "Russian Science Fiction". He is the "4th ragged heater". I wanted to take part, but it didn't work out. Both weekends worked. But the idea should not be lost … And the theme of the competition is now not rigidly connected. And the volume is already approaching the romance.

- A serious question requires a serious answer.

Let's start with biology. Of course, one floor will die out without the other. Who said: "How are mammoths" ?! (laughs) There is a biological division of functions between the sexes: females - stability arising from the function of continuation of the genus, preservation of offspring. Males are a testing ground for evolution. On them, nature tests options. The value of a male's life is much lower than that of a female. Nine out of ten males will die - the species will not disappear. The tenth will fulfill his male duties. If on the contrary - it will be oh …

There are many consequences of this division of functions, we note one thing for now: Males are much more prone to punch than females.

What is science fiction? This is primarily a mental experiment. I set the initial conditions - and watch how the events unfold. Initial conditions: both the Zone and the Second are planets with extreme survival conditions. As a result, the value of life is reduced. You have to fight for happiness. Fight the risk for life. And who is more prone to risk? That's right, men! The one who is seeking is the one who drinks champagne … And the price - there are three times more women on the Seconda than men. That is, two out of three men died … This is the price of champagne …

The modern society has developed a lot of protective mechanisms, reduced the physical risk to a minimum. But still - who occupies the majority of the seats in the government? Men. The risk is not only physical. And the spread of parameters in men is wider than in women, which means there are more upstarts. In everything. Who lives less? Men. And who is more among centenarians? Again, men. So it is to be a testing ground for evolution. Women on the analysis of parameters in the middle. But in pursuit of any goal, it is important to overtake the competitor at least a little. The upstarts win.

- At once there are several reasons why this is not so.

First, since a woman is more careful, she will not climb to fight for a high-standing wing. Power is nerves, stresses, strokes, heart attacks and killers. This is from the point of view of the individual.

Now - from the point of view of society and organization. There is competition. Both between organizations and between states. To get around a competitor, you have to risk. Women are not prone to pisk. Consequently, an organization headed by a woman plays out in the competitive struggle. Natural selection, however. You can also give reasons, but I think two will be enough. In a stable, well-established, formalized society, women's rule is possible and useful. (For example, a school director)

- A contrived design. The author's arbitrariness, or a fantastic assumption - can be called whatever you like. In fiction, it is permissible. But a mechanism is needed to stabilize such a society. Let's think about it. Criminals go to the moon - hence, egoists. They put their interests above public ones. They are inclined to take risks - for the sake of a loved one, but not for the sake of society.

Women are less prone to risk and weaker physically. Therefore, they can only rise to the top with outside support. And who will provide it to them?

- This is a joke, but not just. This is a demonstration of a lack of understanding of the situation. Mpak talks about people (about Shallah), and Cass thinks about dragons.

- Uh-uh … Not married.

- Why so narrow? Not computer games, but just computers. And not football, but tourism! Especially - water or bicycle. Only not organized, but wild. To feel freedom, not to depend on anyone and only on yourself, on your own strength to count. A group of two people - that's it! Organized tourism is no longer tourism.

- Hard to say. I can't stand any stupidity. Especially active. Paul has nothing to do with it. The biggest nonsense I've heard, no matter who it came from?

No-o-oo, I will not tattle on my acquaintances! (laughs) And I can talk about nonsense.

Stupidity in the legislation - a tax with an ALLEGED profits (there was such a thing).

Or cash registers in the open-air markets (they want to introduce this now).

In disputes about religion. People themselves invent a god who has nothing to do with any religious movement, and then they BELIEVE in him !!!

Nonsense in technical documentation. On the first sheet of the diagram there is an arrow leading to the 3rd sheet. On the 3rd - a +5 volt resistor. I took a pencil and painted this resistor on the first sheet. It became much clearer.

In the advertisement: our heater with the same power generates THREE TIMES MORE heat!

Stupidity in Russian typography. Take two or three books and place them in a pile on the table. Look at the roots. Can I read the title? It is forbidden! Letters upside down!

And I don’t even know what to call it. On the street -15. The frozen aunt is serving ice cream. People buy and EAT !!!

What is the BIGGEST STUPIDITY in my understanding is self-deception.

- Not enough yet! I still have my head on my shoulders.

And I observe the fast, but only during hikes … When the products run out …

- Well, in general, do you believe in something?

- Into a person.

- Why save the world ??? It is enough not to destroy … Then there will be no need to save.

- Anyone - no. He has a dummy of limited power. To achieve a SERIOUS goal, you need to develop a little evolutionarily. Evolve biologically or technically.

How - from whom? From a very smart monkey!

You'd better ask Darwin. I'm a science fiction writer. I’ll think of such a thing that this monkey will not be healthy with me for three days!

“She’s not going to say that!” She will say: "E is mine! So autumn has come …" (laughs)

- Protobacterium … () Where, where? From dampness! Okay, well, why does everything happen the way it does? A couple of dozen fairly simple laws plus a superposition of a huge number of factors. The result is difficult to predict, but usually easy to explain in hindsight.

- Can you ask an immodest counter question? What is happiness? Maybe if this question is answered - and the formula will not be needed?

- This is what I was leading. To compose a formula, you need to know what should be the output … And we do not even know what to strive for.

- For a start - to get some free time …

- And then - it is necessary that the summer was. A bicycle, a tent, a blue sky and somewhere in front of you - the horizon line … Well, for complete happiness - another laptop or palm with a good stock of books, flippers, a mask, pine trees up to the sky and a jar of condensed milk.

- Yes!

- There are many, however! I can't choose one. Draniki with sour cream, dumplings, dry chocolate cakes, "Caucasian" sweets - remember, there were such. For a ruble fifty. Now it's just fifty. But already rubles. Yes, just a good piece of grilled meat! With potato…

- Dumplings? Myself! I go to the store myself, I myself boil water in a saucepan, I throw dumplings there myself …

On my website (https://dragonbase.narod.ru) in the section "Flying Vetep" there is a subsection "Recipes for …" At the very end - the recipe for my branded soup. If you take a look, you will understand which of me is a cook. Actually, every man (especially a married man) knows how to cook. But it carefully hides it!

- How to Grinpis. There is a healthy core, but there is a lot of unnecessary noise around.

You have to fight for happiness. If people have a lot of free time, they are free to do whatever they want.

- It is precisely that one must fight for happiness. Nobody will bring it on a silver platter (at the same time, maybe we will find out what it is - happiness).

- Sister Vpedin from my series "The Word about the Dragon" remember? Here they are doing this once and for all. They prove that they are not inferior, and perhaps even superior …

Actually, the question was posed incorrectly. I am thick-skinned as a hippopotamus and calm as a mammoth. Will this woman be able to live with me? ()

- (Thinking) This was not. Would you like to say to someone "thank you for the fact that I, Pavel Shumilov, are what I am"? Mom, I guess …

- What is not - that is not … Although dreams are sometimes very pleasant …

- Dreams are not remembered for a long time. But I immediately remembered an anecdote:

- Patient, do you suffer from erotic dreams?

- Doctor, I did not say that they are torturing!

In my opinion, I even inserted it into one of the novels.

And here's another.

- Doctor, what's wrong with me?

- A-ah-ah !!! What's wrong with you?

- Doctor, I am dying …

- Now I will help!

- Doctor, it seems we are losing me …

And I don't know to train imagination … I tried in Fido and the Internet to arrange something like sessions of training logical thinking - the results are negative. Those who need to train it do not want to do this by any means. Probably, this connection is not accidental.

- I tried it. And not once! Even now there are two such literary games. How this happens, you can find out on my Internet page in the section "Passing wind" - the story "Short flights of Stealth", for example. And in the section "Form" - two things that we are writing now. "House of the Commander" and "Dragons of the Apes Yard".

- A couple of fairy tales were … On the topic of the day. But this is so, for the network and for your own pleasure.

And then I sometimes disguise Science fiction as other genres. For example, the first three quarters of "Ember. Someone else's game" for all external signs is fantasy. And only the last quarter puts everything in its place.

- Like everyone else … I have to work, buy groceries in the store … I like to tinker with the computer, read a good book.

Now? Bob Shaw. "Astronauts in rags", "Wooden spacecraft". He brought a very interesting world there. It would be necessary to calculate whether such a world could exist. But it looks like no. It’s not without reason that the author so clearly emphasized that this is a world with a different metric. Even the number "Pi" is different in it …

- Stop at one author and one book? Why limit yourself like that? In addition, the first place is shifted depending on the mood and the last read. List a dozen favorite authors?

- Anne McCaffrey "The Ship That Sang", "The Harpwoman of Menoli" Olga Larionova "The Chakra of the Centaur", "The Formula of Contact" Colin Greenland "Return Abundance". Robert Aspin MYTH serial (until you get bored).

AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO YOU READ JOHN NORMAN !!! He wrote a grandiose series (two dozen novels) - "The Story of Thirl Cabot's Moral Fall on the Planet of Horus" - not a read for women. Most likely - for sexually anxious boys. Other things not included in this series are in the same spirit. But an intelligent, superbly educated person … Probably, he and his wife were out of luck! ()

- Twenty years ago I wrote myself. To cram the rudiments of graphics onto an alphanumeric monochrome display (16 lines of 80 characters each) is, you know, a task … And now … I am observing a strange process: The more powerful the computers, the dumber the games. Intellectual games (chess, logic tasks and puzzles) were played on teleprinters and alphanumeric displays. Runners, walkers, shooters appeared on Apple-2. But the lack of graphics and speed was often made up for by the intellectual component - it was necessary to solve logical problems, build traps. And now - great three-dimensional graphics, which is hung with a stupid arrow … Or the same stupid strategy - kill everyone! It's a shame, however … And games for stupid ones don't interest me.

Yeah … So I told you! (laughs) You shouldn't ask me this, but those around you. Well, is there any quality that bothers you yourself? Maybe you want to change something? Are there people who are completely satisfied with themselves? Name any quality of character or organism and think whether you would not want to increase or decrease it slightly (by 10-20 percent)?

And what is more important - it depends on the situation. On a hike, you want to pump up your muscles faster, or get used to the night cold faster. In the ice - so that the reaction is two or three times faster. To resist if you slipped. At work - for example, learning to multiply four-digit numbers in your head without stress. Or philosophically perceive the sticks of the authorities. It all depends on the situation.

- You know how many nice ones! I'll start counting - I'll finish tomorrow … And choosing the most-most is not in my rules:) If you had said - the first hundred - I would have thought … And, finally, when to expect new products? Wait approximately in May. Collection "Cruel Tales". (Stories, stories, one novel - only 10 things).

What would you like unusual? You know, there is such an old toast (with a Grrruzin accent): "In every woman there is something small, wrinkled, brown … the name of which is a Zest! So let's drink to this zest, don't forget about it!" And you will always be beautiful. In a pinch - attractive!