Jim Young: “I respect cyberpunk. I’m interested in the influence of technology on a person. But in this pair, I’m more interested in the person. What will happen to him tomorrow? How will he change? To what extent is he capable of changing? Where is the technological boundary that must be crossed Is it possible, but where is the one that is not allowed? How does a person differ from a not-quite-human person? My latest novel, which will soon be published in America, is devoted to these completely Samakian themes, and I think about them in different ways in the novel that I finished writing until the middle, and in the last one. my short story, which readers of “MEGA” can now read. It’s about what is called biotechnology today, or more precisely, gene therapy. Is it a post-cyberpunk topic? Great, but what interests me is not its subtleties, but its consequences, not least. moral. You change something in the mind of a terminally ill person at the genetic level, but until what point can you be sure that the defense mechanism will work? And will he remain himself after that? If I wrote the story “Mikrode-City” about one thing? -the only person, then the story could be safely sent to the waste paper basket. But I didn’t write about a person - about society as a whole..."© "Fantacrim MEGA" No. 1, 1995