Max Kidruk: Imagining the future in a science fiction trilogy

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  It had never been done before.

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  It'll launch like a rocket and land like an airplane.

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  And we got people on it.

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  Roger. 13 Minutes presents The Space Shuttle.

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  Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Mark Berman, and in this edition of In the Studio, I'm taking you to 22nd century Mars,

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  courtesy of best-selling Ukrainian author Maxim Kidruk and his vast saga,

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  The New Dark Ages, which began with Colony in 2019.

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  I started writing this trilogy with the thought that fiction should warn,

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  that as a science fiction writer,

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  I should depict the worst possible scenario of the future and describe it as realistically as possible,

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  so that no one doubts that it really can become our future.

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  But now, I don't know.

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  I mean, now it's not about who I'm writing for, but...

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  For what, after the full-scale invasion of Russians?

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  It seems to me that all sci-fi books which describe the moral and ethical progress of humanity,

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  how perfect we will be, all these books should end up in trash.

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  Max Kidruk is a big beast in a small jungle, writing in the best and worst of times.

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