At long last my philosophical novel is complete! A journey through space, time, and dreams, Planetary Messenger explores the social, scientific, and spiritual consequences of discovering another planet in the galaxy just like our Earth. I began this project as a NaNoWriMo entry in 2007 and continued editing and revising for a year and a half.
From the back cover:
Since the dawn of humanity we have gazed at the stars to ponder our existence. To the naked eye the skies are dark and lifeless, but what if, through a glass, we looked to the heavens and saw our mirror image, a twin Earth from afar? If we found our uniqueness shattered in the vast cosmic arena, then what, if anything, could we still hold sacred?
Planetary Messenger is now available either directly from Createspace or through Amazon. Thanks to all of you who have been part of my life so far and helped make this possible. Happy reading!
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So I am writing a novel. As a friend of mine, Nadya, put it, a sober-punk fiction. One of the main characters in this story named after my friend, Ivan Nikitin. It’s easier to write for me, when I think about someone real. It’s already enough of nonsense there, as everything in this story is a messed up and mixed up patchwork of memories, dotted by black holes of imagination, warping what is left. So I have to keep some references to sanity, adding some actual details. One of the chapters starts from a dream, in which Nikitin is talking to a cat, called Kapa, which, according to the story, he kept in the past (in reality Kapa was a cat I had in Bangkok before he ran away).
When I was done with the first draft, I had sent it to Ivan to read. It turned out that he has a dog now, dachshund or what is the name of the breed - I am not into dogs really; anyway, a dog called Kapa started to live with him about the time I lost my cat and added this episode in the story.
None of us, as we live 10000 or so km and few years apart didn’t know about our pets, both called Kapa in retrospect. Well, our Kapa was called after Japanese Kapa - sort of elf or mythical creature, who likes to make jokes on people. Nikitin’s Kapa got the name short from Kapsula - or capsule in Russian, because his dog reminds him one.
Weird, isn’t it? Surely, Kapa lived up his name, making all kinds of jokes - such as biting my nose when I’m asleep or hiding fish under the blanket. His last one is still puzzling me.
Boris Kislitsin
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Yesterday I took Tai - my 3 yrs. old son to park. I was busy doing something, and he gone quiet for a minute or so. When I looked up, he was standing with hand stretched to a nearby tree, with a palm open. It puzzled me. What was he doing?
- I am supporting the tree by sending my energy.
- Why do you need to support it?
- So it’s not going to fall down.
- Why would it fall down all of sudden? - I continued. I know, adults are boring… nevertheless, I was curious. The tree looked perfectly fine.
- Because trees don’t have secret energy which you and I have.
- And what can we do with this secret energy?
- Send it to stars or put in the water, - without hesitation answered he, as it was an obvious thing.
He talks about secret energy often. Today he explained, what all of us have a little bit of it, which we can use every day, because we can recharge it when we sleep.
Interesting indeed.
Boris Kislitsin
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