Everything is like people. Idiatullin Shamil Shaukatovich

Shamil Idiatullin is a writer and journalist, twice laureate of the Big Book Prize (Brezhnev City, Former Lenin), the author of the mystical thrillers “Unbyr” and “Recently”.

In his new book, exciting stories are collected, where a fantastic plot is combined with desperate psychologism. Here, a little man is small, and ancient evil is huge, parental love confidently leads to monstrous victims, the city of childhood disappears from Google cards, grandfathers communicate with distant grandchildren through AI-translators, and the path to immortality is paved with corpses-in a word, everything is like people. This is just science fiction, the author believes. Is this comforting you?

In our hard times, when everyone has a couple of publications in network magazines strives to open paid literary courses, Shamil Idiatullin generously opens the doors of his writer's cuisine for all readers. The menu contains stories and novels, microchorriers and short films, experimental and written texts. And - experts will appreciate - all of them are equipped with honest copyright explanations, how it happened. Not in every book you are met by an author, finally ready to tell you what he had in mind. (Daria Bobyleva)

In general, few people can write so that after the story, whether even a horror, or a terrible social satire, or people into dinosaurs turn, or environmental topics are present, but still: overwhelmed the latter The page-and, somehow contrary to everything written, is light on the soul. Shamil Idiatullin is such an author, and this book is like that. And the author’s comments are delivered, of course. Without these comments, it seems, the book would not be a book, but... it turned out a wonderful, whole thing. (Alexey Salnikov)