Truly, for some mystical reason, I have always hated to read fiction books. Fiction books have always put me to sleep. I'm a non-fiction book lover. I love to read magazines such as Popular Science or non-fiction educational materials that students normally read while at schools. I love to watch non-fiction documentaries and science fiction movies such as Star Wars, The Fifth Element, Battlestar Galactica and many more, as long as movies are about future flying cars or traveling in and out of space or a medieval history with knights and renaissance with triangle hats.

One day I have forced myself to read a science fiction book, because didn't have access to a TV and nothing else interesting to read from non-fiction or to do. The book that I have read was a Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. Very nice science fiction novel with wonderful philosophical touch to it, couldn't stop reading it. Even read a second science fiction book right after. Don' t want to disclose the second book and it's writer, but I would have rewritten it so much better. Shortly, the second science fiction book was by a very famous science fiction author and I thought I could do better.

Again, I had lots of free time at that point. I'm the kind of human being who can' t sit without doing anything for too long. Therefore decided to try. Started writing my first science fiction novel in my native Russian language. Wrote until 70st page where got stock without any idea on how to continue the novel and question why am I writing in Russian if I will be trying to publish it in USA. I left the first one undone and started the second science fiction novel that I have later called Earth Clone. I wrote it all in English from start to finish. Was quite an experience, writing a science fiction book in my second language. I did have to ask for help correcting the language after the novel was done and have to thank Rehana Mithwani for helping me with editing the Earth Clone novel. Rehana Mithwani is a linguist living in Kenya, Africa. I have met her through www.guru.com. She did a fabulous job editing my first novel.

I'm myself, is an Orthodox Slav, who immigrated from Russia to USA in October of 1996, just before I turned 16. I remember I couldn' t say anything except how are you or hello and good-bye in English. Today, only a decade later I wrote whole science fiction novel in English. I don' t know how important this is to you, but for me it is quite an achievement. I have researched a lot for this novel to make it sound science fiction. I have read Ecology, Cosmology and some Nuclear War Dictionary that I can' t really find anywhere anymore.

Anyways, my second attempt, became my first science fiction book that I'm trying to publish right now. The second novel is also science fiction and on it's way to be completed and translated to English. And I have ideas for bunch of more. I still don't read fiction books and don't want to, to avoid plagiarizing other science fiction authors. The Earth Clone is not available for download yet, but it will be soon. Many of those who read it, enjoyed it a lot, others called it weird. All science fiction is weird to begin with and was meant to be this way. Submarines sounded weird too before their theory became a reality and their reality became obsolete.

Many most likely said a century ago: “Why would you want to fly to space? Isn't it good enough on Earth?” Though, though, though! Finally everyone understood! We have internet, cell phones, satellite TV, GPS, you name it. Thanks to the little ball with spikes at it 's end, the Sputnik that started our space age. Thanks to the competition between USSR and USA that forced these two superpowers to invent staff trying to win the race of who is first. Today, whole world enjoys it. There is a lot more that science is preparing for us to discover in the future. We should all just sit tight, comfortably and enjoy it's evolution, while reading the science fiction and imagining through it's theories what will future be like. Definitely we won' t be using candles again after 2012. However, I wish to be able to affordably fly to space for at least couple of hours to feel the zero gravity, right on New Years Eve of 2012. That sounds a lot more realistic, at least to me.

My first novel Earth Clone is 31,435 words long. The story itself is about an orphan who was one of the first elected by the government to inhabit the Earth Clone, the space vessel with self sustaining ecosystem that humans built to explore the space, basically the man-made copy of planet Earth. This orphan later falls in love with a secretly cloned woman on the Earth Clone. Secrecy was broken when two future-to-be-lovers, have met after cloned woman ran away from the lab as soon as scientists gifted her with intelligence. They love each other within the little Earth-looking space ship and all co-inhabitants support their love. Meanwhile the real planet Earth has more and more tension growing among it's inhabitants, what causes a nuclear holocaust and complete distraction of life on Earth, but not the Earth Clone. Humans on Earth Clone survive, but can' t go back to Earth, because Earth becomes a radiated dust ball where humans won' t be able to live for about a thousand years. Story is filled with lots of theoretical inventions of my own that do not yet exist. Story filled with romance, drama and even jealousy that causes crime. Lots and lots of humor that makes everyone who read it so far, to go off laughing. Enjoy reading it as soon as it is published. Or if you are a publisher, please contact me by email: "igorv@wayby.com" to help me publish it. Thank you!

By the way, Vishnevich is my childhood nickname, for those who wonder. ;)