Let's Put the Future Behind Us

Let's Put the Future Behind Us

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author = Jack Womack
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Speculative fiction novel
publisher = Atlantic Monthly Press
pub_date = April 1996
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 310 pp
isbn = ISBN 9780871136275
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"Let's Put the Future Behind Us" is a speculative fiction novel by Jack Womack set in post-Soviet Russia and released in 1996. It chronicles the transition of bureaucratic apparatchiks into an endemically corrupt Russian quasi-capitalism in the early 1990s dominated by oligarchs, criminals and ultra-nationalist political groups.

The novel arose when Womack's friend and fellow author William Gibson had been collaborating on a screenplay with Kazakh director Rashid Nugmanov after an American producer had expressed an interest in a Soviet-American collaboration to star Russian-Korean star Victor Tsoi.cite web
url= http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_03_01_archive.asp#90416069
title=Victor Tsoi
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last=Gibson
first=William
date=2003-03-06 ] Despite being occupied with writing a novel, Gibson was reluctant to abandon the "wonderfully odd project" which involved "ritualistic gang-warfare in some sort of sideways-future Leningrad" and sent Womack to Russia in his stead for a week in March 1992, immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. [http://www.hourwolf.com/chats/womack.html Jack Womack OmniVisions Interview] , conducted 1996-10-10.] [http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/118/Jack-Womack-Going-Going-Gone-page01.html#post17 Jack Womack: Going, Going, Gone] , interview with Cory Doctorow, "The WELL", 2001-08-01] Rather than producing a motion picture, a prospect which Tsoi's death in an automotive accident put paid to, Womack's experiences in Russia ultimately culminated in the novel, which he began writing in 1994 and finished in September 1995.

The novel has been hailed by Charlie Stross as a "brilliant and vitriolically funny apocalypse geek novel about life in Russia", [ [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2006/10/lets_put_the_future_behind_us.html Charlie's Diary:Let's Put the Future Behind Us] , Charles Stross, 2006-10-20] while "Wired" commended its "brilliant aperçus and well-aimed jokes", [ [http://yoz.com/wired/3.01/irl.html The Future Ain't What It Used To Be] , "Wired" Issue 3.01, January 1997] calling the novel "the best Russian gangster thriller ever written by a guy who's not Russian", [ [http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2005/08/the_future_of_n.html The Future of Nostalgia] , Wired.com, 2005-08-12] and "Entertainment Weekly" rated it a B+. [ [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,292830,00.html Let's Put the Future Behind Us] Book Capsule Review, "Entertainment Weekly", 1996-06-07]

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*cite book | last = Womack | first = Jack | title = Let's Put the Future behind Us | publisher = Atlantic Monthly Press | location = Boston | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780871136275


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