Enemy Unknown
   Novelisation of the famous «Microprose» computer game «UFO: Enemy Unknown». Defence of Planet Earth against mass invasion of aliens. Due to specificity of the genre this novel is not likely to interest literature gourmets, but if you spent many nights fighting mutons and sectoids - read it. And you are not likely to regret.

   Boarding in cyberspace:
   The events of the title novel of the collection unfold both in real world and in virtuality. Burglar hackers steal information that doesn't belong to them, hunter hackers seek the burglars. And it all happens in endless flat world, where the speed belongs to you, you only have to saddle your faithful motorbike and leave the city. The Net, hearts and engines - the three whales the nearest future world lies upon. The story «Hydrofoil Jolly Roger» tells about smart fellows from the future who invented an idea of piracy in Atlantic of Captain Blood times. «Ghost city» — story about two car racers who entered a non-existing city where there is life and war. As always they have to choose which side to align with. Two short stories are also included into the collection.

   Sign of the warrior
   Collection of stories, the first two are about a pilot of the Hobart stellar empire who by accident found himself on a feudal planet without familiar weapons and communication. He has to fight with a sword to win a chance to return. In the second story he returns to the same planet, but now by order of the command to investigate some oddities and doesn't know he's the one to stop a long-lasting interstellar war. Three last stories belong to the Shandalar cycle. Shandalar, or Cloudy land, is the place where winter ended and spring never came. Warriors, guardians of peace and order, collide with intruders from an alien world. They have to stand like a wall on their path to guard the Cloudy Land. The story «A Year of Life» tells about Shandalar in another epoch, already without endless rains. The hero has to settle down on unfamiliar land, and, once settled, save it, not knowing by what price yet. The events of the final story of the cycle unfold in the lands that border with Shandalar at the North. Someone stole a barbarians' holy relic - The Black Stone of Otran - from them. Simultaneously, inhabitants of two shore countries undertake a sally against pirates. The troops are led by yound rulers who have just completed their military training. They have to qualify for maturity for the first time, and so does the young barbarian dispatched by the chieftains to find the lost relic.

   Blades:
   Three peoples seek to posess the Book of Seventy Crafts — Slavs, Norsemen and Nomads from the steppes. In the process another pretender gets involved in the search - an unhuman race. The search leads them all to unthinkable far and alien worlds, where war is waged since the beginning of the world. Nobody wants to recede from the search for alien knowledge...