Science-fiction writer: “I view every ordinary event from a different angle”

Fantasy author, journalist, and publicist Alexander Khakimov met with students of Report Media School.

According to Report, he shared his writing experience and gave recommendations to students.

The writer noted that he was looking for something unusual in every simple matter: "My writing style is like this. I view every ordinary event from a different angle. As a fantasy author, I do not approach the issue from the aspect of realism."

Khakimov emphasized that it is better to understand human intelligence by studying the behavior of dolphins or ants:

"Once, I was asked on a TV show, who would you do the most unusual interview with in your life? I said that whales have a spoken language, and I wanted to interview them. Some laboratories develop a special vocabulary for understanding the whale language in Canada and the United States. I would translate these questions into the whale language, send them with a hydrophone, and wait for an answer."

Alexander Khakimov was born in Baku in 1960. Having graduated from the biology faculty of Baku State University in 1986, he worked as a chief laboratory assistant at the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences until 1991. Since 1991, he has been working at the Genetic Resources Center of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he graduated from the international screenwriter course.

Khakimov worked in newspapers such as Echo, Zerkalo, Nedeyla, Strana, Azerbaydzhanskiye Izvestiya and cooperated with magazines such as Yurd, Ganjlik, Stil, and Literature Azerbaijan. He is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles. He is known for his works such as "Living Without Monkeys", "I Don't Want Amazons", "Messages", "The Sighted Blind."