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The famous "Twitter" Alfina published her first fantastic book and the Geekster editors could not pass by this event. Everything here is as it should be: science fiction with topical social commentary and a touch of the St. Petersburg mentality. And also with sprayed shoe covers and neurointerfaces. Even in an age when a person needs only a finished draft and a financial sum on hand to publish their own manuscript, publishing a book still feels like an important life step. And when someone, whose person you may not even know directly, announces in their social networks that he has a book coming out, this is at least postponed in memory - with an inevitable bit of regret in the spirit of “people have enough strength to write a book, and I like the photos of cats laziness". It happened with Alexandra "Alfina" Golubeva. It is not the first time she appears on Geekster, but just in case, a short extract: "Twitter", a linguist by training, gained wide fame thanks to a twitter thread about non-obvious linguistic facts, drew webcomics, wrote various things in co-authorship, Edition Books & Games in Nigeria  the copyright holder of the phrase "This is Peter , baby ", worked on a remake of" Pestilence. Utopia ", translated the good book" Blood, Sweat and Pixels "and simply translated the not-so-good book" Kojima Genius ". With such a colorful history of hobbies, the publication and publication of your own book was clearly only a matter of time. The time has come in the fall of 2019. It did not happen in the spirit of "well, I'm a graphomaniac here, it will come out someday." Everything is as it should be: with a catchy, incomprehensible name (you say, what does "Catasterism" mean without googling?) And a killer illustration. Not just a book, but Science Fiction. Not a Novel, but a Tale (three hundred and a half pages). And on the cover they promise a story about a miracle pharmacology and shoe covers sprayed on shoes. Intriguing! At least, I immediately want to know, but what has shoe covers? Small spoiler: shoe covers have nothing to do with it. A small aesthetic notion designed to emphasize the distance between the real world and the world of "Catasterism". At the same time, the distance is not that great. Taxis here are driven by autopilot, and you can call the key fob, but in general, this is almost our present day. A rather depressing modernity, which the more it changes, the more it remains the same. The story has two storylines. One of them is dedicated to Dana, an average freelance marketer from St. Petersburg who loves his aging parents very much. And when they begin to pass in front of our eyes and turn to various dietary supplements and miracle healers, he cannot calmly stand aside. He is looking for a fraudulent salesman who sold them a "Nano-Sound Machine", he discourages him from buying expensive and useless pills. He is looking for some ways to help his parents - after all, he is a good son, because we are more and more surrounded by real technological wonders. With this line, Alfina, perhaps unconsciously, but most likely still oh, how she deliberately pricked into a nerve, which, as a rule, is not really talked about in funny twitter parties. On social media, we love to chat and read about video games, technology, TV shows and politics. And then we visit our parents at the weekend, and with horror we realize that they are a little older. That they are no longer so clever with modern technological gizmos. Or, even worse, they put these gizmos at the service of their pursuit of rapidly leaking health. If you've ever had to talk to your elderly relatives about why you shouldn't trust every Youtube healer, reading the chapters about Dania will give you an uncomfortable feeling of deja vu. The second line does not hit everyday problems so sharply, preferring to talk about broader, "cyberpunk" topics. A certain Tulin, a person clearly traumatized by recent events in his life, gets a part-time job in a company that is engaged in an extremely amusing way of processing data. You come, pull on the hood-neurointerface, pictures and videos are fed to your subconscious, and you sit, do nothing and think of nothing. In this half of the book, Alfina seems to include in full all the angst that is characteristic of young people versed in modern technology. "What is the value of our personal data and to whom can we sell it more profitably?" “How soon will neural networks take all our work away from us, and what will we do then?” These and some other questions https://jiji.ng/books-and-games/edition