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Olga Werby

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Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

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Average rating: 4.19 · 201 ratings · 86 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Harvest 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Animals by Olga Werby (Goodreads Author), Christopher Werby 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fatoff Conspiracy 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God of Small Affairs 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twin Time by Olga Werby (Goodreads Author), Christopher Werby 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pigeon (The Ornis Experiment #1) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lizard Girl & Ghost 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suddenly, Paris (Many Worlds, One Life #1) by Olga Werby (Goodreads Author), Christopher Werby really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Girl 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mirror Shards 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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We are the heroes of our own journey through life. That’s true whether or not we are basically good. No matter what kind of actions they took, Hitler, Putin, Jack the Ripper, or the Unabomber always viewed those actions as heroic nationalist, political, or social necessities done for the glory of “their” people. Their life choices were, in their minds, necessities of the moment. Even if people

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Olga Werby wrote a new blog post Finding Happiness in Someone Else’s Happiness The Dutch have a word for a feeling that encapsulates “finding happiness in someone else’s happiness:” gunnen. This would be the opposite of a German Read more of this blog post »
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Olga Werby liked Suzi Foley's review of Twin Time: "Time travelling twins This book is very well written. I couldn't put it down. One chapter led right to the next. Two little girls wandering around their great aunts garden find themselves 100 years in the past. While in present time one of the identic" Read more of this review »
Mar 05, 2025 10:10AM · see review
Olga Werby is now following The Reading Ruru (Kerry) and Nancy Foster
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Olga Werby and 2 other people liked Nancy Foster's review of Lizard Girl & Ghost: "I am one of the judges of team Space Girls for the SPSFC4 contest. This review is my personal opinion. Officially, it is still in the running for the contest, pending any official team announcements. Status: Yes Read: 100% For 2 years in a row, our team" Read more of this review »
Dec 09, 2024 02:39PM · see review
Olga Werby liked The Reading Ruru (Kerry) 's review of Lizard Girl & Ghost: "After reading 30% as one of the judges in Space Girls for SPSFC4, I'm personally giving this a Y. In fact I actually carried on and completed this book. (A proper RTC once I've gone through our "slush pile")"
Nov 12, 2024 03:19PM · see review
Olga Werby made a comment on Essence " Yes. I've read some of them in Russian. In English, I was horrified when I tried to read them to my kids! ;-) ...more "
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“Societies continuously try to recreate themselves — shared holidays, shared news, shared traditions, shared language, shared music, shared myths, shared victories, and shared griefs. Shared origins… So by telling each other stories, we recreate ourselves over and over again. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Who are our heroes? Who are the villains? These stories pass our values as a society from one generation to the next. It’s how we understand each other.”
― Olga Werby, Twin Time

tags: cultural-identity, language, mythology, society, society-humanity, storytelling

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“Short stories are very different from novel-length works. From the structure point of view, there are fewer characters, no subplots, and a lot less description of the setting and the characters populating the story. A short story simply doesn’t have room for world building… obviously. You grab the story with the first few words and don’t let go or digress for a minute. There is no room for exposition… or pretty descriptions of fashion or cool explanations of scientific principles on which the story is based or commentary of how computer interfaces changed in the future. A novel has room to think, to orchestrate multiple melodies on a theme, whereas a short story is a driven commentary on a single cord.”
― Olga Werby, Twin Time

tags: novel-writing, novels, short-story, worldbuilding, writing

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“Our memories are not static. Each time we reach for one, we refresh and form new neuron connections, in fact changing the memory itself via our contemplation of it. Like Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle — we can observe a particle’s momentum or its position but not both simultaneously — each time we recall a particular event, we change it due to that recollection. After the mental touch, the memory is no longer the same. And this is true not just in some metaphorical sense, but in a real, tangible, physical way — the act of recall alters the neuron structures forever! And yet we eagerly recollect our favorite memories, and we just as eagerly try to forget the painful ones (and the very act of thinking of those painful memories makes them that much stronger, that much more connected and integrated into our neural memory networks).”
― Olga Werby, Becoming Animals

tags: cognition, memory, neurology, remembering, writing

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“Having had some experience as a sci-fi writer myself, I found Suddenly Paris to be a very nicely written, YA Sci-Fi novel that turns the story of THE MATRIX on its head. It explores the following question. What if, instead of being people trapped in a synthesized dream world, we only think we are real? The ethical and existential questions that go along with computer generated characters inside a simulation acquiring self-awareness without an awareness that they are living in a simulated world are dealt with in a very entertaining story. Enjoy.”
― Richard Phillips, The Second Ship

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“The plot of "Suddenly, Paris" novel is fantastic; you have to read it!”
― Readers' Favorite

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“When I think of cyberpunk, I inevitably relive in my mind the awesomeness that was William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk masterpiece, Neuromancer. That book changed the way I looked at science fiction and revitalized the promise it held to the world. Lizard Girl & Ghost comes as close to that experience and that promise as anything I've read since.”
― Readers' Favorite

tags: avatars, cyberpunk-scifi, science-fiction, virtual-reality

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“Becoming Animals" is a very interesting, enjoyable, and thought-provoking read; a brilliant addition to the libraries of science fiction and fantasy fans, as well as anyone who simply enjoys a good story.”
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tags: animals, childhood-sickness, consciousness-mind-brain, cystic-fibrosis, near-future, neuroscience, science-fiction, soul

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“Harvest" is a deep and meaningful exploration of the complexities regarding the origins of the human race as well as the intentions of an alien species.”
― Readers' Favorite

tags: aliens, anthropology, evolutionary-biology, first-contact, hard-science-fiction, humanity-and-society, near-future, physics

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