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Book trailers
SEMMANT
A SIMPLE SOUL
THE BLACK PELICAN
Stories Behind the Books
"For over a year I did nothing else. I worked tirelessly, as in a fever. The robot grew smarter – I really put a great deal into him. Its artificial mind became a logically closed circuit, self-sufficient, personally complete…"
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"The screen was no longer blank; a person was there looking at me with a bright, electric lamp in place of a head. His nervous fingers stiffened impatiently; he needed a confidant and a witness, or else an instructor, a guide. His pose betrayed a habit of deciding for many, but now he was clearly at a crossroads..."
Rene Magritte: The Pleasure Principle
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"I formed a small team of some of my former scientist colleagues – all of them had excellent educations, doctorate degrees, and families with nothing to eat. The first five months everything went OK, but then we caught the eye of professional swindlers. They took notice and – quite easily and gracefully – set us up by slipping us some funny C-notes instead of real money…"
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"The year our firm went public, I began to feel I wasn’t in control of my life. I was spinning in a whirlpool of events and duties, of the interests and opinions of others; escape seemed impossible. And I liked my life less and less. In fact, I didn’t like it at all. So I made the decision to take a vacation and went, off-season, to Nags Head, NC..."
Author Bio
"Think Gogol, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and ...Babenko!"
Grady Harp, Amazon HALL OF FAME and TOP 100 REVIEWER
"Babenko is the Stephen Hawking of the Emotional Black Hole"
Scarlett Jensen, Amazon reviewer
"I can't say enough about Babenko's amazing power of description - especially with his splendidly depicted characters"
Norman Goldman, Bookpleasures.com
About Vadim Babenko
- Born in the Soviet Union.
- Earned master’s and doctoral degrees from the Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology, Russia’s equivalent to MIT.
- As a scientist at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, became a recognized leader in the area of artificial intelligence.
- Published his first book of poetry.
- Moved to the U.S. and co-founded a high-tech bioinformatics company.
- Published his second book of poetry.
- Left the company right after the successful IPO – to the bewilderment of everybody. Became a full-time writer.
- Published five books in Russian including two novels, THE BLACK PELICAN and A SIMPLE SOUL. Both novels were nominated for the National Bestseller and the Big Book awards, Russia’s most prestigious literary prizes. THE BLACK PELICAN was a finalist in the National Bestseller Award.
- Published English versions of THE BLACK PELICAN and A SIMPLE SOUL and his third novel, SEMMANT, in English and Russian. All books were translated in English with the author’s active participation.
- A SIMPLE SOUL and SEMMANT won the National Indie Excellence Award (USA) – in General Fiction and Science Fiction categories. THE BLACK PELICAN was a finalist in the Literary Fiction category of the same award.
- Published his fourth novel, THE PLACE OF QUARANTINE, in English and Russian.