Book "Hotel M100"

In times of upheaval: pandemics and wars, if you are lucky and the event has not yet thrown you into the thick of things, you need to occupy your mind - to distract yourself.

So, I distracted myself. I took a distance learning course in creative writing, read books on how to write novels, then even more books on the chosen topic. Next, I bought a large telescope (Dob 10" (250/1200) Retractable), eyepieces, Barlow lenses, a Cheshire eyepiece, and learned how to use it all. I took it apart, put it in the car, and drove around Russian observatories. I took part in observations (we were just lucky, my wife and I were allowed), talked to astrophysicists. I read, watched, and wrote down.

Initially, the goal was to motivate my son to graduate from the Faculty of Mathematics and become an engineer, but over time... The work on the book took more than 5 years (in my free time), I started before the pandemic, but then gave up. Sometimes there wasn't enough time, sometimes I just couldn't finish it. It wasn't only the pandemic that forced me to take up the book, but also the death of a classmate - my best friend, a worthy person. The plot of the book changed beyond recognition, about five percent remained from the first draft. I rewrote it four times, editing, proofreading, proofreading again and again, until Prigozhin's column went to Moscow, forcing the book to be sent to Litres for publication.

Whether it worked or not, readers will judge, but I tried. I guarantee that I can entertain you. Surprise, scare, make you laugh, excite, show that things can be much worse, much worse than a pandemic and SVO, and what an unsolvable problem is! But there is always hope and a solution, the main thing is not to give up and remain human.

Travel, read books, look at the stars, love!
Sincerely, travel agent Mikhail Sysoev.

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