Yarmin's syndrome
E-book, Czech
Yarmin's syndrome
Return from Rappone
Forty million people in Baltimore's over-technologized megalopolis are slowly losing touch with the natural world and its standard habitat, which is being replaced by technology. It was clear that such a rapid development could not last indefinitely and that one day a critical threshold would be reached that would change everything by leaps and bounds. The time estimates of this event, however, were usually somewhere between one and five hundred years ago, which gave some sort of guarantee that the present inhabitants would fortunately not live to see it. No one ever dreamed that everything could be radically accelerated by one of the many Earth space expeditions, in this case to the planet Rapponea, which returned to Earth some seventeen years ago. But she left something behind. And now it has unexpectedly returned.
Heteša Petr
He graduated from the Gymnasium in Breclav and then from the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology (1983). He works as an architect, in 1983-90 in DRUPOS České Budějovice, since January 1991 in his own company R2 COMP, dealing with architectural projects and advertising design. Until 1989, he collaborated with Karel Veverka (see) on short stories and novellas that won good positions in the Karel Čapek Prize competition. In 1987 it was a short story about a simulated computer game called The Impure Game, in 1988 an extensive short story on a similar theme We look forward to seeing you (book I. Železný 1991), describing a gritty computer game whose protagonist manages to get out of a simulated world and into our reality, and in 1989 they self-published a short novel Networks, Canals and Sewers with the help of the Winston SF Club. Petr Heteš published two separate short stories in the magazine The Natural Beauty of Tarcus (Science and Life, 1988, no. 2) and Mončičák and Čičmunda (ABC, 1990, no. 22), differing significantly from the stories written together with K. Squirrel. His best short story Quag was published in the anthology Kočas in 1990. It is set in the closed world of an isolated palace in France, where children are raised uninfected by a virulent alien epidemic. The story is compellingly told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy who is experiencing his transition to adulthood while learning the truth about the world around him. The short story Gython was published in the anthology Flight to the Moon as a collection of short stories by Czech authors (1993). (Source: Legion; Photo: Topzine)
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