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[Alexandr Korol]

of “Alternative History,” then there must also be some kind of psychological preparation happening in parallel for society, for the masses from God, so that they at least begin to understand what a multiverse is. And that’s probably why Marvel did it, or something like Marvel — these movies, they’re kind of silly, light, for fun, nothing too complex, deep, or intense, but still, even for such superficial people, these films implant the idea that the multiverse exists, so that maybe when they read my book “Alternative History,” they’ll already be ready for it. At least on some superficial level, they’ll understand the meaning of the word. So the world doesn’t revolve around me. I believe that in parallel, through all creative people who are connected to God, to nature, these people are now feeling the same as I do, and each one is transmitting it through their own tools. Some through paintings, some through films, I do it through books. I believe that means I’m not alone, that there are many of us. And we’re simply moving into a new age, more precisely, a new era of some kind of discoveries, technologies, where everything we lived in must be revealed, and something new must open up — how to live further. I’m writing a science fiction novel about it, someone else presents it in a different way. Maybe based on my novel “Alternative History,” scientists will make a million discoveries, invent a perpetual motion machine, a cure for all diseases, a time machine, a flying saucer. And directors will pick it up, all the screenwriters will write scripts, make a film, a series, for example, based on my novel. That would be great, why not? But it feels like it already exists, it’s already inevitable, just everything in its own time. I don’t know... Do you want to hear from me personally, at this moment in 2025, my opinion, me as the character of the book, Alexandr Korol, how I thought back then when the second volume was out, and how I think now? Well, here’s how I think now. I think that the novel “Alternative History” doesn’t need to be turned into something overly supernatural. In every book — again, let’s not nitpick the words — but in every book there is a soul, in every book there is a Spirit. Imagine there was some unique, brilliant person who had a castle with fountains and greenhouses. And suddenly this person dies, and it all gets inherited by his grandchildren. And these grandchildren decide to tear it all down and repaint it pink, and redo half of it. And if they do that, they will kill the Spirit that was invested. The Spirit is that very structure, what the original owner, their grandfather, was connected to. And that grandfather who built