Tracy Kenny
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Leo Vardiashvili:
Hi Leo I've just finished Hard by a Great Forest. Max at Bloomsbury said how good it was, and he's usually right. I can't wait to put it in my customers' hands. I'll be writing to Sara O'Keeffe. Thank you for such a moving novel. I just couldn't put it down. A question then: Why do you think they're calling it Science Fiction?
Leo Vardiashvili
Hi Tracy,
I'm glad you enjoyed the novel and thank you for the praise - but that's far too kind of you!
Your question promted a closer look at the Goodreads tags - I had no idea I wrote Science Fiction.
I suppose there are some surreal, magic realism elements to the novel. There are mentions of portals, adjacent worlds intersecting with ours, and fairytale elements tugging at the edges of reality.
Maybe this is why it got tagged as Sci-Fi? From the feedback so far, the novel seems to be one of those annoying ones that doesn't neatly fit into a genre.
I hope that (sort of) answers your question!
Cheers,
Leo
I'm glad you enjoyed the novel and thank you for the praise - but that's far too kind of you!
Your question promted a closer look at the Goodreads tags - I had no idea I wrote Science Fiction.
I suppose there are some surreal, magic realism elements to the novel. There are mentions of portals, adjacent worlds intersecting with ours, and fairytale elements tugging at the edges of reality.
Maybe this is why it got tagged as Sci-Fi? From the feedback so far, the novel seems to be one of those annoying ones that doesn't neatly fit into a genre.
I hope that (sort of) answers your question!
Cheers,
Leo
More Answered Questions
Riana
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Leo Vardiashvili:
I love this quote from one of your interviews - "I think it’s Nodar who says: ‘It’s a shell, it kills anyway, it doesn’t matter where it came from. I don’t care if it’s the Russians or Georgians.’ And that kind of sums it up, it doesn’t matter [who is doing the shelling], you’re destroying things, you’re hurting people’s families.” Did you lose any family during the civil war?
Riana
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Leo Vardiashvili:
I promise this is my last question, Leo. I have been thinking about your characters and their various exploits, and I am burning to know whether you roughly plotted where the characters were heading before hand, OR if the characters led you into writing different situations/locations that you had not planned. I have heard that this can happen. Is it a fair question?
Angela
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Leo Vardiashvili:
I just finished the audio version of your book and it earned an extra star, just for the fantastic narration. I am curious- does the author typically have involvement in selecting the narrators and the production of the audio book? Congrats on writing this spectacular novel- I loved it!
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