A literary text that has been dispersed over the network, in which you can see a parallel with the events of recent years, users of social networks attribute to the American science fiction writer. We checked whether this is really a quote from his novel “Goblin Reserve”.
The text is a dialogue between the gnome, semi -elf and princess with a certain burgomaster. The latter wants the characters to take the parcel to the goblin living nearby. He periodically fired at the city from a grenade launcher, but, according to the burgomaster, he cannot be responding with a forceful way, otherwise the others who did it will be called aggressors, invaders and provocateurs.
Internet users who published this fragment in recent months saw in the described situation the similarity with the Israeli war against Hamas, then with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The authors of such posts admired the foresight of the author of the text, the American science fiction writer Clifford Saymak, because his novel “Goblin Reserve” was published back in 1968.
In January 2024, publications with this excerpt became popular on Facebook - so, entry in the community "Odessa without noise and dust»At the time of writing this analysis, 5300 users were replaced, including a musician Andrey Makarevich (1100 reposts). A month earlier in Telegram, an excerpt with reference to Saimak placed political bloggers Mikhail Khazin (128,000 views) and Alexander Semchenko (86,000).
Indeed, Saimak has a novel "Goblin reserve", Published in 1968, and soon steel To publish in a Russian -language translation. However, there is no such fragment in this work. Among the characters of the novel there are goblins, gnomes are mentioned casually, but the author does not write anything about any half -elf, princesses and burgomastra. In addition, at the beginning of the viral text, one of the heroes uses the expression “take quest»-obvious anachronism, because role-playing video games, escape runs and city orientation competitions have become widespread only in recent decades.
With the signature "Clifford Saymak. "Goblin reserve." 1968 "Fragment began spread In social networks only in October 2023, after the Hamas attack on Israel. Prior to this, Internet users published it, as a rule, without mentioning the author. For the first time, this text can be found in the publication of July 17, 2014 in the “live magazine” of the user Bormor.
Under this userneum hides the Israeli writer and blogger Peter Mordovich (aka Peter Bormore), whose short stories in the fantasy genre have been repeatedly published not only on his page, but also in books And magazines. Princess, Semielf, dwarf and burgomaster met in more early his works. On the similarity of Mordkovich's texts with Saymak's work, some readers indicated In the comments to posts in the Live Journal (the author agreed with this supervision).
Nevertheless, the goblin has nothing to do with the American science fiction story about the American science fiction writer. In 2014, this text was written by the Israeli author, being, apparently, under the impression of military-political events close to him. The work was connected with Saymak only a few years later - probably this happened in the process of its circulation on social networks.
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