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    Game. Bilingual English / Russian Edition.
    Game. Bilingual English / Russian Edition.
    Game. Bilingual English / Russian Edition.
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    Game. Bilingual English / Russian Edition.

    By Stepan Vartanov

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    Sometimes the strong have to be ruthless, no mater how much we want to avoid it...
    A short Sci Fi story about us, humans.

    I wish I had this sort of book long time ago, when I was a student. A simple idea, really: to have a meaningful English text and a Russian text, in parallel, side by side. Sentence-by-sentence, not on the next page, as they do it in textbooks. I even found few books of that type, but I also found they were... boring. Either the author used Russian classics (but frankly, I hate Dostoyevsky) or he/she wrote it on the spot (John drives a car and Mary has a pen), which produced a text, but not a book. A great reading, if you have insomnia.
    Finally I learned English (or so I believe), and I thought – why not? By that time I had published over a dozen Sci-Fi / Fantasy books in Russian, and they were not as depressing as Dostoyevsky and not as plain as “John and Mary” example.
    Here it is.
    Hope you will enjoy it.
    Steve

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStepan Vartanov
    Release dateApr 24, 2018
    Game. Bilingual English / Russian Edition.

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      Game. Bilingual English / Russian Edition. - Stepan Vartanov

      Game

      Stepan Vartanov

      Combined English-Russian Edition

      Игра

      Today, we are the strongest country on Earth. But sometimes the strong has to be ruthless, no matter how much we want to avoid it...

      Сегодня мы — самое сильное государство на Земле. Но иногда сила вынуждена быть жестокой, как бы нам ни хотелось этого избежать…

      Normally, texts for President's public announcements were written by speechwriters, whose job was to carefully choose words and to avoid sharp corners.

      Вообще-то обычно речи для Президента пишут спичрайтеры, тщательно расставляя акценты и аккуратно обходя острые углы.

      Normally, but not that time, as that particular speech was special.

      Обычно. Но предстоящее выступление не было обычным.

      Some people would think that America was about to, finally, leave behind an over-weighted burden of liberal values, getting away from anecdotal situations, like the one, when a robber sues the house owner for a finger injured when picking up the lock.

      Кому-то покажется, что Америка сбросит наконец груз устаревших либеральных ценностей, уйдет от анекдотичной ситуации, когда залезший в дом грабитель может засудить хозяина за поцарапанный при взломе ящика палец.

      Some would say - scream! - this was a treason and the end of American spirit...

      Кто-то, наоборот, начнет кричать о предательстве американских идеалов.

      And very, very few people in the entire world would realize that this simple and elegant speech was a war declaration.

      И очень, очень мало найдется в мире людей, которые осознают, что эта простая и строгая речь есть не что иное, как начало

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