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[Alexandr Korol]

person. And suddenly it’s as if I matured, ripened — and everything I practiced on gave me the ability to begin the real work on the novel “Alternative History”. And this process is still ongoing, it’s not yet complete. It feels like I was born for this — this book, “Alternative History”. But of course, even for me, those earlier books still give an incredible sense of faith. Imagine this: there’s the novel “Alternative History”, eight volumes written by me, when I was already over thirty, right? I’m the main character of the book, Alexandr Korol. It’s a powerful first-person novel, science fiction, all that. Maybe later, like with the writer Isaac Asimov, some sci-fi films will come out based on it — about time machines, robots, and the structure of everything — that would be amazing. But here’s the real shock: if you now open my earlier books, especially the one I began writing in childhood and only finished in 2023 — The Three Paradoxes of the Creative Person — that’s my diary, where each chapter stands alone, moments and little stories I captured. And I was writing that at age 20, 21, 22 — and it’s all the same. About Spirits, and worlds, aliens, the other side, how I came from there into the human world, and that I’ll return there again. How is that possible? So yes, after “Alternative History”, if you go back and open all my early books and reread them, they take on a whole new meaning. You begin to understand and perceive them differently — and it’s shocking. Because when a grown man over 30, who you might think just watched a bunch of movies or read Wikipedia about mythology, writes something like this in a novel, your mind is comforted — it protects itself from going crazy. It makes up excuses, thinking it’s all fiction, that any of you could have done the same as I did. That’s how your mind defends itself. But if you start reading The Three Paradoxes of the Creative Person and see that I was already thinking like this when you could barely write straight in the bathroom and were forgetting to dry your hands, and I, at 20, was already pondering such things — if you realize how old you were when I was 20, then you’ll truly be surprised. Then you’ll clearly understand that the Spirit was already within me back then. While you were still thinking about braids and ponytails, sausages and dumplings, I was writing books like this and seeing the world the way I did. So yes, on the one hand, maybe my earlier books add some weight to my persona. Because if in the future my “Alternative History” books come to light, and a societal upheaval begins — where some part of the state and the people think it’s fake or some kind of project, while others believe