Yarmin's syndrome
Return from Rapponea
Forty million people in the over-technologised megapolis of Baltimore are slowly losing touch with the natural world and its standard biotopes, which are being replaced by technology. It was clear that such rapid development could not last forever and that a critical threshold would one day be reached, which would change everything in an instant. However, the time estimates for this event were mostly somewhere between one hundred and five hundred years, which gave some guarantee that the current inhabitants would fortunately not live to see it. No one in their wildest dreams imagined that everything could be radically accelerated by one of the many terrestrial space expeditions, in this case to the planet Rapponea, which returned to Earth some seventeen years ago. But it left something behind back then. And that something has now unexpectedly returned.
Petr Heteša
He graduated from the Grammar School in Břeclav and then the Faculty of Architecture at Brno University of Technology (1983). He works as an architect, from 1983–90 at DRUPOS České Budějovice, and since January 1991 in his own company, R2 COMP, which deals with architectural projects and advertising design. Until 1989, he collaborated with Karel VEVERKA (q.v.) on short stories and novellas that won high rankings in the Karel Čapek Prize competition. In 1987, it was the short story about a simulated computer game, *Nečistá hra* (Foul Play), in 1988 the extensive short story on a similar theme, *Těšíme se na vás* (We're Looking Forward to Seeing You) (published by I. Železný, 1991), describing a brutal computer game whose hero manages to escape from the simulated world into our reality, and in 1989, with the help of the Winston SF Club, they self-published the short novel *Sítě, kanály a stoky* (Nets, Canals, and Sewers). Petr Heteša had two solo short stories published in magazines: *Přírodní krásy Tarcusu* (The Natural Beauties of Tarcus) (*Věda a život*, 1988, no. 2) and *Mončičák a Čičmunda* (Monchichi and Chichmunda) (*ABC*, 1990, no. 22), which differ significantly from the stories written jointly with K. Veverka. His best short story, *Quag*, was published in the *Kočas* collection in 1990. It is set in the closed world of an isolated palace in France, where children unaffected by a devastating alien epidemic are being raised. The story is impressively told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy who, while discovering the truth about the outside world, is also experiencing his transition to adulthood. The short story *Gython* was published in the anthology *Let na Měsíc* (Flight to the Moon), conceived as a collection of short stories by Czech authors (1993). (source: Legie; photo: Topzine)
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