Wild Energy. Lana
| Author | Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko |
|---|---|
| Original title | Дикая энергия. Лана |
| Language | Russian, Ukrainian |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Teza |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Publication place | Ukraine |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 412 pp |
Wild Energy. Lana (orig. Ukrainian Dyka enerhiya. Lana) is a 2006 fantasy novel, written by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko and published in the Ukraine. The authors were named the best European fantasy writers in 2005[citation needed]. It is inspired by Ruslana the Ukrainian singer, dancer, producer, composer, conductor, and piano player. The storyline of the book contains a lot of elements from Ruslana's unique lifestyle. The main character of the story Lana is supposed to become the prototype of Ruslana's new music project. The first music video for this project was due in summer 2006. In 2008 the English version of the book should be released in Europe. A German version is also planned.
The book was released in 2 different covers.
Plot
The heroine, Lana, lives in the synthetic city and works as a pixel. Every evening millions of people, working as pixels, perform a 20-minute-light show for the other citizens. They wear colourful robes and during each sunset they receive commands in the form of music through headphones. Each command means a certain type of movement, so that by moving/dancing, different parts of their clothes are exposed to the sun rays, thus reflecting the sun light in different colours. All this can be seen on a huge screen in the synthetic city, where all citizens watch it.
After every light-show all pixels receive a packet of energy thank to which they survive till the next dose. If a pixel makes a mistake during a show, so that the picture appears distorted, they are punished by not receiving an energy packet. If they haven't stored anything from their previous doses, they will not survive the next day.
Lana's best friend, Eve, makes such a mistake and is not given a packet. Lana does her best to save her but doesn't succeed. In the synthetic city there is a rumour spread that some people don't need these packets of synthetic energy and can live on their own, by the energy their hearts and spirits produce. These people are chased by the energy police- they are slaughtered in the factory (mystic place about which no-one knows anything) and their energy is used for maintaining the lives of the synthetics by turning it into energy packets.
Lana is determined to find the Wild people and try to live by her own energy(the phrase "I'll find it or die" becomes the motto of the book and Ruslana's project.) She finds them in a place called Overground. Overground is located on the roofs of abandoned or ruined skyscrapers, high, where no-one can reach the Wild. They have created their own world and culture, own means of travelling- wings, own language- a language similar to this of the birds. Lana stays with them for a while, finds friends and she herself turns out to be a powerful generator of wild energy, for which she is chased by the energy police. Being in Overground she exposes also her friends to danger. One day, while she is not there, the energy police, in search for her, attack the Wild from Overground. When Lana returns, her home is devastated. She sets off to find and destroy the factory where her friends have most probably been taken.
On her way she meets the people-wolves, living in the woods, where she stays and learns how to summon the nature forces, which will help her destroy the factory. During those rituals she is helped by a small drum, given her as a present by an old guy from the synthetic city. She gathers a group of devoted young wild "wolves" and they go to fight with the factory and its devastating energy. The first attempt is not successful, the young wolves die, but she manages to enter the factory and is caught by the factory's host, who calls himself "The Heart of The Factory". Lana becomes his hostage and while she is there, the author, without being concrete, several times hints that the factory's host might be Lana's father (this is never directly said).
However Lana manages to escape and saves her Overground friends. They go back to the people-wolves, where they gather a team for a scond time. Follows another fight with the factory. The characters' weapons are different musical or noise producing instruments, including drums and trembitas. The factory's power is deafening silence. All sounds, all rhythm is lost when approaching the factory. Its anti- rhythm is usually stronger than any other life energy, any life rhythm, any heart rhythm. Lana's task is to defeat this anti-rhythm and, by summoning lightnings, which have to strike simultaneously the several weakest parts of the factory, to destroy it.
The friends manage to do this, they enter the factory, but there, the factory's anti-rhythm almost kills them. They survive because "The Heart of The Factory" helps them by taking their place in the dangerous anti-rhythm zone. He dies and Lana and her friends remain safe and sound. The Wild go back to their homes and Lana becomes the new factory's host, the new "Heart of the Factory".