Lukyanenko had to “run away” from fans in the downpour

The meeting with the cult science fiction writer at the Red Square festival was held in “extreme” conditions

Sergey Lukyanenko became the highlight of the penultimate day of the Red Square festival. Fantast had to communicate with the public non-stop: first, he spoke as part of the session “The Heirs of the Strugatskys” and immediately held a meeting “What did the author want to say?”.

The fans literally flooded the author of the Watch Universe with questions, and the downpour and unbridled love of the fans did not interfere with communication. The hosts, having asked if it was true that over the years of Sergey Vasilyevich’s creative activity in our country, more than 9 million of his books were published (to which Lukyanenko objected: “Actually, much more”), they immediately lost the initiative on the field. And then the microphone passed from one reader to another. The key theses voiced in the form of answers deserve thoughtful citation.

About the Lunar Conspiracy

– I have a friend, popularizer of science Anton Perlushin. He is very well versed in astronautics, and at the words that the Americans were not on the moon, he begins to have an attack. I always tell him: well, have you already been allowed to say that they were not there? There were probably Americans on the Moon, but I have a feeling that some of the footage was filmed in pavilions.

About the Rise of the Machines

If artificial intelligence arises, in any case it will be dependent. He cannot produce electricity on his own, build computers, so he will not rebel. He will not show that he has appeared, and will promote the idea that it is necessary to robotize in order to save a person from physical labor, you need to protect nature and multiply less and entrust machines as much as possible. And when he has the opportunity to exist without people, he will show himself.

What will the next book be about?

“I wrote the novel Forsythe. The plot is that many began to dream about the future. These dreams are frightening: the world in them is very strange, monsters appear from the mirrors, this world is covered with dark luminous clouds, there are very few people left and they try not to communicate. And the heroes who got there in their dreams are trying to understand what happened and how to avoid it.

At the end of the meeting, Lukyanenko tried to sign autographs in a civilized manner, but those who wanted to get them pressed on, and the action had to be moved to a special place. But in order to get there, the science fiction writer had to “run away” from the fans in the downpour, and it was not immediately possible to “break away” from the people “pursuing” him with books.