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Knights of the Forty Islands
(science fantasy thriller)
[Rytsary Soroka Ostrovov]
- Knights of the Forty Islands (April 1988 - August 1990)
[Rytsary Soroka Ostrovov]
Children disappear in our world, just to find themselves in the macabre and militant Forty Islands, where they are made to fight in vain hope to win a ticket home.
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- "Rumata's Sword" award for the best heroic-romantic fantasy and science fiction of 1995, "Sibcon" (Krasnoyarsk)
- Wars of the Forty Islands (1993, unfinished)
[Vojny Soroka Ostrovov]
With the artificial world of the Forty Islands destroyed by the heroes of the first book, the children settle the world outside the giant cupola, and centuries later there is a feudal society, only it is quite special in many ways...
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Stars are Cold Playthings
(science fiction)
[Zvjozdy – kholodnye igrushki]
- Stars are Cold Playthings (April-December 1996)
[Zvjozdy – kholodnye igrushki]
It's almost our time. The mankind is accepted as a member to the Conclave of the Worlds - but only as a Junior Race, serving the Senior Races as interstellar truck-drivers. By a strange caprice of the nature, we are the only race which can survive a sub-space Jump, and human Space Shuttles, Burans and Spirals with quite simple jumpers can go where giant alien cruisers cannot. Earth is now a galactic Third-World-world, polluted, exploited and cheated in interstellar trade, as are other Junior Races. The Junior Races, not happy with the order of things, make a plot against their masters, and in the course of the conspiracy a young Russian pilot Pyotr makes contact with Geometers, a new race, possibly dangerous for the Conclave....
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- Sidereal Shadow (1997)
[Zvjozdnaja Tenj]
he Geometers prove to be a friendly race - far too friendly, in fact. They pose a threat not only for the Conclave but for the Earth, too. On the other hand, the Geometers themselves are runaways from a strange civilization of the Shadow, and Pyotr now has to investigate this new force in order to save Earth from the certain destruction
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Night Patrol
(mystical thriller)
[Nochnoj Dozor]
- Night Patrol (January - August 1998)
[Nochnoj Dozor]
When you walk a familiar street, you can be attacked. By a vampire. A licensed vampire. Well, if the creature has no license, it will be stopped by the Night Patrol - perhaps. The Night Patrol is a police of the Bright Otherers. (An Otherer is a human - (or is he... it?) with powers traditionally described as magical). The Night Patrol enforces the Treaty of the Bright and the Dark Otherers... and so does the Day Patrol (naturally, it is the police of the Dark Otherers). Werewolves, werebears, weretigers and even wereiguanas are real, so are witches, wizards, vampires, necromancers and other fairy-tale characters, only they look just like the man next door, in fact, they ARE the people next door. The Dark Otherers and the Bright ones are in the endless fight, yet this is not the good guys vs. the bad guys. Just Otherers against Otherers....
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- "Strannik" ("Wanderer") award for the best novel of 1999 ("Strannik" ("Wanderer") convention, St.Petersburg)
- Second prize in the "Novels" nomination ("Zvyozdniy Most" ("Stellar Bridge") convention, Kharkov, Ukraine, 1999)
- Day Patrol (January - August 1999)
[Dnevnoj Dozor]
(In co-authorship with Vladimir "Boxa" Vasilyev (a bard and SF&F writer ("Shandallar", "Hunt for the wild trucks", "The Technician of the Greater Kiev", "Hearts and Motors", "Win or Die", and etc.))
Sequel to the "Night Patrol". The new intrigues of the two Patrols, the inquest of the Inquisition (the Otherers' "inner police" controlling both Patrols), and strange events which could lead to great changes for us humans, are now set not only in Moscow but also in the Crimea and in Prague
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- First prize (shared with Vladimir "Boxa" Vasilyev) in the "series and sequels" nomination of 2000 ("Zvyozdniy Most" ("Stellar Bridge") convention, Kharkov, Ukraine)
- "Gold RosCon" award (shared with Vladimir "Boxa" Vasilyev) for the best book of 2000 ("RosCon" convention, Moscow, Russia)
Cold Coasts
(Fantasy quest with something to think about)
[Kholodnye Berega]
- Cold Coasts (August - November 1997)
[Kholodnye Berega]
In this world Jesus has not come to us - instead, there was the God's Stepson with his magic Word (sorcery, not Logos). Besides, iron in this word is more rare and precious than gold, with inevitable consequences to the technology, economy and etc. The mighty Power, heir to the Roman Empire, shares the world with China, Russian Khandom, Ottoman Sultanate and a dozen or so of small countries. This world seems more placid and in a way more comfortable than ours, and it seems very stable and unwilling to change. But one day Markus, a bastard prince of the Ruling House discovers an ancient book which could change the world, for better or worse....
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- The Dawn is Near (September 1999 - August 2000)
[Blizitsja utro]
Ex-gravedigger Ilmar, ex-cop Arnold (wittingly adorned with German accent, big muscles and the inevitable "hasta la vista" and "I shall be back"), ex-nun, ex-pilotess (they fly planers there, not planes), ex-jailer, ex-bishop... twelve companions of the fugitive Prince Marcus, all in all... have to decide, whether Markus is a long waited for Messiah, or an equally long-expected Tempter; they have to decide it quick, because the strange boy is being hunted by the police and the church, by foreign spies and every loyal citizen...
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