Day Patrol
   This — is the sequel to the well-known Sergey Lukyanenko novel «Night Patrol [Nochnoy Dozor]». This time it's the story of the Dark, the story of mages, vampires, lycanthropes, witches. The world in the eyes of negative heroes of the first book. They too can suffer, feel compassion, but their feelings are different from the Light ones. From their point of view the position of the Light is not the only one possible, and of course the Dark ones don't consider it a right one. Magic on the streets of modern cities, long-lasting war of two groups of Others, intrigues and collisions. Real city fantasy.

   Wolfish nature/Beast in everyone of us
   The Dilogy «Wolfish nature» and «Beast in everyone of us» is rather like a espionage novel in an unfamiliar entourage. On Earth, where by a strange whim of nature not the primates, but the descendants of cynoids, dogs, became intelligent. The world followed the biological way of development but in the end came to mechanical technologies. The world where people are as diverse as dogs in our world. There are no murders - murderers simply go insane, because several hundred years ago all humanity was genetically modified and stripped of all aggressiveness. And it comes out that in Siberia there are true wolves, predators, for whom killing is as natural as breathing. All the world's special services begin hunting them; events unfold in a way that makes unknown, who will turn out to be a merciless beast - meek humans or predatory wolves.

   Black Relay
   The events of the novel unfold in a Universe already known to the reader by the book «Death of Glory», but this novel is written in a competely different key. While «Death or Glory» is full of action, «Black Relay» is an eerie static thriller. The title speaks for itself - a relay of death passes through all the Galaxy. It's a book about pawns who interfered in the games of queens.

   Going into the night
   Imagine a world where there is no night, only blue and red days changing each other. And there are lycanthropes who in one day look like humans and in other day like beasts. The human remembers nothing about the beast time, the beast - of the human. And two such outcasts have to go far away to the fabulous U-Narinna, Stone forest. During the red days, a girl with a wolf goes there, while during the blue days it's a man and a big cat. A lot of adversity and adventure will they meet on this way, a way to the Stone Forest and on the way to themselves.

   Звезды над Шандаларом
   Collection; the first three stories are from 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. The story «Eye of the Almighty» tells about a world resembling ancient East. Since ancient times monks preserve a particle of divine essence, moving it to the necessary place when time comes. If that is not done, the world shall die. And as always, there are those who want to possess the relic. Two monks - martial masters, a pilgrim from the archipelago and a person who accidentally joined them after they saved him in the beginning of the way, set out to search for the relic. «Esteban Blankes Cloister» — a gloomy story about a mystical book and unlucky fates of those who come in touch with it. A casual investigator, catcher of bandits and searcher for runaway wives, suddenly stands face to face with all the world's evil and searches for power in himself to vanquish evil. But there ain't no such thing as a free lunch...

   Death or Glory    Space future of the humanity: the role of hopeless galactic provincials doomed for stagnation. But a discovery on one of the human colonies radically changes the arrangement of forces. Aliens throw elite troops on human planet Volga hoping to possess the ancient weapon. And then humans turn out to be not so spineless, despite the backwardness. Death or glory and not a step back - aliens appear to be totally unready to such a turn./div>

    Hunt for Wild Trucks (Technician of Greater Kiev)
   Strange world, resembling world of swords and sorcery, but in this world the role of swords belongs to shotguns and pistols, the role of faithful steed - a motorcycle, a jeep, a world where instead of magic there is machinery. The world of gigantic metropolis, where all mechanical devices live their independent lives and don't need attention from the living at all. A world standing on the edge of downfall, where the hero has to sumultaneously save the world and kill it.

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