Ask the Author: Garry Ocean
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Garry Ocean
The most important thing for me in my writing is the responses of my readers, an opportunity to communicate with the people from various countries and cultures, expanding the horizons of my own knowledge, search of new ideas, learning something new. This brings me a lot of joy and gives energy to write future works.
And, of course, the job of any writer is to create a new World. It is very important that the readers understand and accept this world and are prepared to live in it for some time together with your characters.
And, of course, the job of any writer is to create a new World. It is very important that the readers understand and accept this world and are prepared to live in it for some time together with your characters.
Garry Ocean
I am a beginning writer myself. I am not sure I can advise anything on this issue. But I think that optimism and faith in oneself is an important part of writing. If you believe you have something to say to the Reader, try it in any case. And if you can’t not write – then write! Who knows, perhaps your work will resonate with the hearts of millions of people?
Garry Ocean
Now I am writing the fourth part of The Forbidden World. The working title is The Lost City.
At first I was planning to write one book, maximum two, about the adventures of a Space Courier Service intern named Nick Sobolev in The Forbidden World. However, quite surprising even for myself, the main character started to live a life of his own, independent of me. He started to make independent and most importantly logical (even more humane) decisions, and before I knew it he acquired loyal friends and powerful enemies. In addition to this, the planet where he had to land in emergency had too many active forces tangled in one tight knot that seemingly had nothing to do with the Cocoon directly. This is why I made a decision to let the events take their course according to their own rules, without rushing and fetching the plot lines according to my own reasoning.
At first I was planning to write one book, maximum two, about the adventures of a Space Courier Service intern named Nick Sobolev in The Forbidden World. However, quite surprising even for myself, the main character started to live a life of his own, independent of me. He started to make independent and most importantly logical (even more humane) decisions, and before I knew it he acquired loyal friends and powerful enemies. In addition to this, the planet where he had to land in emergency had too many active forces tangled in one tight knot that seemingly had nothing to do with the Cocoon directly. This is why I made a decision to let the events take their course according to their own rules, without rushing and fetching the plot lines according to my own reasoning.
Garry Ocean
Growing up, I was an avid sci-fi reader. When my son was born, my wife and I took turns in telling him bedtime stories. She was reading him fairy tales, while I was telling him the stories I made up from scratch (because I always forgot them by the time I needed to tell them again). At first, I was giving him my interpretation of the most interesting stories from my favorite sci-fi writers, but because he was asking more and more of new stories, I had to start coming up with my own sci-fi plots. My wife once heard one of those stories and suggested that I should write it down. At first, I didn’t take it seriously, remembering her joke that as soon as I started narrating our son immediately falls asleep. But then I decided to try. This is how I first wrote several short and long stories, and then I started working on The Forbidden World series.
Garry Ocean
I was always interested in the issues of biological evolution, Homo Sapiens’ origin, emergence and development of the human civilization. And the most important thing – are we really unique in the Space? Or, in other words, is sentient life an accident or regularity for the Universe?
The novel Intern is the first in the series of books under the umbrella title The Forbidden World. It takes the reader to the 25th century. By that time, humans have eradicated all diseases, discovered practically all possible renewable sources of energy, settled most of their social differences. The humanity started a large-scale expansion into Deep Space. The alien civilizations humans encountered on the way were significantly lagging behind in terms of technological development, which gave the Earth inhabitants a reason to think that they were the superior race and “the engine of progress” for the entire Universe.
Until, quite by accident, their exploration probes stumbled upon a camouflaged area in a little-known sector of the Galaxy. It had a shape of a sphere the size of about our Solar system, isolated from the rest of the Universe by an exceptionally distorted space.
Upon further exploration it turned out that it was not a cosmic anomaly or a natural accident, but an artificial cocoon, created by an unidentified entity, not known when or why. It has become obvious to humans that somewhere out there in the Space there exists and acts an unknown civilization that is far more advanced in its development than the Earth’s.
The World Council makes a decision to temporarily classify as top secret all data on the discovered object and to give full authority to the Galactic Security Service to investigate. The GSS decides to penetrate the cocoon at any cost, having reasonably estimated that only there the Earth residents would be able to find answers to their questions.
For this purpose, engineers create a limited number of ultra-modern spaceships equipped with the hyper engines of new generation. Under strict secrecy, they are being prepared to be deployed at the research base located closest to the Cocoon.
The novel Intern is the first in the series of books under the umbrella title The Forbidden World. It takes the reader to the 25th century. By that time, humans have eradicated all diseases, discovered practically all possible renewable sources of energy, settled most of their social differences. The humanity started a large-scale expansion into Deep Space. The alien civilizations humans encountered on the way were significantly lagging behind in terms of technological development, which gave the Earth inhabitants a reason to think that they were the superior race and “the engine of progress” for the entire Universe.
Until, quite by accident, their exploration probes stumbled upon a camouflaged area in a little-known sector of the Galaxy. It had a shape of a sphere the size of about our Solar system, isolated from the rest of the Universe by an exceptionally distorted space.
Upon further exploration it turned out that it was not a cosmic anomaly or a natural accident, but an artificial cocoon, created by an unidentified entity, not known when or why. It has become obvious to humans that somewhere out there in the Space there exists and acts an unknown civilization that is far more advanced in its development than the Earth’s.
The World Council makes a decision to temporarily classify as top secret all data on the discovered object and to give full authority to the Galactic Security Service to investigate. The GSS decides to penetrate the cocoon at any cost, having reasonably estimated that only there the Earth residents would be able to find answers to their questions.
For this purpose, engineers create a limited number of ultra-modern spaceships equipped with the hyper engines of new generation. Under strict secrecy, they are being prepared to be deployed at the research base located closest to the Cocoon.
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