Traditional publishing has limits. Self-publishing on the web has virtually none. I think it is a useful experience.

It is the disappointed hopes of mankind. At the turn of the twenty-first century we were promised that the Internet would bring all nations closer together and reunite the humanity as the single entity it should be. But the governments of the largest countries did not allow that. Instead, they changed the cyberspace into a weapon, an instrument of power and business. My book is about a group of people who are dissatisfied with the present state of things and who decided to change it. This group, the Internet Hate Machine, is rather similar to the actually existing hacker group known as Anonymous.

It is hard to tell. My primary interests are human personality and society, so I may pick any genre or subject. The only thing that matters is whether it is interesting :-)

I was born and grew up in Donetsk, a large industrial city in Ukraine. My parents were blue collars. They loved me and each other, we were a happy family. Unfortunately, my father died when I was 13, so I had to quit school and begin working in a factory. The things I saw there made me strive for a better job. Eventually, I chose writing.

I started writing in primary school. Back then, I wrote fan fics to my favorite animated cartoon series and sci-fi films. It was my wish to see the story continue. My imagination would not give me a moment’s peace.

I love all of it. Writing is the job that gives me the most satisfaction. Besides, I just love being able to have a sleep or a day off whenever I like.

Currently I am writing a sequel about the Internet Hate Machine group. The next novel will be set in the world of information singularity. The world where you can destroy a person who lives on the other side of the globe without leaving your bedroom. In fact, those are two competing worlds: the real and the virtual one.

I do it just like any working individual: plan my day, make coffee, work with materials, then get to writing.

When I am not writing, I play online games, walk my dog, watch good films, ride a bicycle and go hiking.

Jules Verne, Yuri Nikitin, Sergei Lukyanenko, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Stephen King – to name only few.

Each story had its own impact :-)

On the screen, any disaster is scary and eye-catching. As we watch such films, we relieve the tension that has accumulated within us because of the constant crowds and stresses of city life. Sometimes we all want to go far away, to some place that has no living soul at all, to turn over a new leaf. All the zombie culture, all these apocalypses are a metaphor, an euphemism for what is actually going on. Influenza viruses, queuing crowds, HIV, embittered animals, killers. All this is about people. And they are zombies too. Every day we, every single one of us, feel in danger among them. And films are just a means to remove tension.
Unfortunately, if the zombie apocalypse actually happens it will be too terrible to make a film of. There will be no brainless biting monsters, everything will be even worse. The infected people who know they will die can do many things, including base and violent ones. Like a crazy drug addict wandering the city and using public transport to pierce innocent people, absolute strangers with an AIDS-infected needle. Perhaps someday I shall write a book about that.

I already have some, but it would not be a bad thing to get a newer version.