Russian Epic

In Mercedes Lackey's Firebird, Ilya, son of a Russian prince, is largely ignored by his father and tormented by his larger, older brothers. His only friends are three old people: a priest, a magician, and a woman who toils in the palace dairy. From them Ilya learns faith, a smattering of magic, and the power of love - all of which he will need desperately, for his life is about to be turned upside down.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” (Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE “Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming . . . a remembrance of...

After battling the hyenas, Eric gets a notification that something called a Place of Power has been found. That is the only clue that might help him get back to his native world. But there's a problem. The system needs mana to calculate a route. Eric simply doesn't have any, and he doesn't know when he will. That is because, due to the strange laws this world lives by, Eric's mana supply isn't filling up. But the Great System also exists here, though its laws are only partially functioning.

A young Russian woman comes into her own in the midst of revolution and civil war in this "brilliant" novel set in "a world of furious beauty" (Los Angeles Review of Books). After the loves and betrayals of The Revolution of Marina M., young poet Marina Makarova finds herself alone amid the...

Instead of enjoying the game, I found myself trapped inside my character's dead body. Now the only way I can save myself is by procuring the Scroll of Rebirth. The problem is my chances of getting it are slim. I'm an undead: an outlaw with no friends, only fickle allies and plenty of enemies. Who are only waiting for their chance to strike. My undead hangman character has to tread a razor's edge, with only the support of his fellow players preventing his imminent plunge into the abyss. But are they who they claim they are?

Scyth and the followers of the Sleeping Gods have lost the Holy War. The new gods, who call themselves the True Gods, celebrate, unaware that the Sleepers have one more temple left. But how long until they find out? After all, Scyth's enemy Mogwai, once the strongest player on the planet, knows about Kharinza. The Supreme Legate of the Destroying Plague thirsts for vengeance and is eager to regain his former positions, becoming stronger every day, while Scyth, deprived of his invulnerability, has lost his former advantages.

In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs, or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear.

To make a clan does not necessarily mean to make it successful. First you have to walk the hard path from the foundations of your castle to victory in interclan conflicts. Only then will you be recognized. Only then can you be listed among the location's top clans. Your adversaries, however, will not be sitting around twiddling their thumbs. No dominant clan needs yet another wannabe competitor. Or its two founders. Which is why Kvalen and Eradani are being hunted down. Bugles sound as players sharpen swords and draw arrows. Bring on the show!

Его творчество уникально настолько, что произведения Лавкрафта выделяются в отдельный поджанр - так называемые лавкрафтовские ужасы. Творчество Лавкрафта, повлиявшее на массовую культуру Запада, оставило неизгладимый след на творчестве бесчисленного числа писателей, работавших и работающих в жанре мистики и ужасов.

Alaska, 1989. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigorivich Plesnett has a stained past - as a major in the Czar's Troika Guard, he was cashiered for disobeying a direct order. Now, 10 years later, Grig charters out to a cossack and discovers his past has not only caught up with him but is about to violently change his future, and the future of all nine of the nations of North America as well. Spanning Alaska from the Southeastern Inside Passage to the frozen Yukon, this is an epic tale of one man's journey of redemption and courage.

В результате удара молнии командор Городской Стражи сэр Сэмюэль Ваймс переносится на тридцать лет назад, в старый Анк-Морпорк, который стоит на пороге гражданской войны. В Страже одни коррумпированные неудачники и вместе с ними только начинающий свою службу юный Сэм Ваймс.

Виктория Вавилова, запертая в теле герцога Алана Вас'Хантера, продолжает бороться за свой разум, свою душу и свое существование. Впереди обучение у храмовников и возвращение в город, из которого Алана изгнали еще до рождения. Интриги Храма, предательство друзей и помощь врагов. И возможно....

Герцог - фантастический роман Ирины Успенской, вторая книга цикл "Практическая психология", жанр героическое фэнтези, попаданцы.

Пребывание в маленьком гарнизоне, стоящем на границе Сибири и Китая, это ссылка. Но не для того, кто отправился туда прямиком с фронта Четвертой Магической Мировой Войны. Для молодого боевого мага второго ранга подобная перемена места службы стала настоящим подарком судьбы.

Для Гайдэ нет ничего важнее, чем обязательства перед своей землей и обещание, данное королю Валлиона. Даже оказавшись бог знает где, она всей душой стремится вернуться на Во-Аллар, ставший ей настоящим домом.

Сумрак и его верные друзья продолжают осваивать заброшенные земли. Теперь у них есть город, ресурсы, налажена торговля. Всё хорошо, приток переселенцев постоянный, еды в достатке, да и с оружием проблем нет. Вот только на горизонте вновь маячит тень врага. Грядёт война и под угрозой всё, что было так заботливо создано.

Издание содержит фантастический роман Андрея Васильева "Снисхождение. Том третий ", цикл "Файролл", жанр боевое фэнтези, LitRPG. Все в этом мире когда-то подходит к концу. Вот и Харитон Никифоров, так же известный в онлайн-игре ""Файролл"" под именем ""Хейген"" вплотную приблизился к заветному финалу. До вызова богов в мир Файролла осталось всего-ничего, но как иногда бывают трудны самые последние шаги, на дороге, ведущей к заветной цели.

Izdanie soderzhit fantasticheskij roman Andreja Vasil'eva "Snishozhdenie. Tom vtoroj ", cikl "Fajroll", zhanr boevoe fjentezi, LitRPG. Mnogo malen'kih sobytij ran'she ili pozzhe spletajutsja v odno celoe, takovy zakony bytija. Vot i v igre "Fajroll" vse proishodit tak zhe - nebol'shie stychki mezhdu klanami vse-taki vylilis' v bol'shuju vojnu. I gde-to v samom centre grjadushhego bezumija nahoditsja geroj, kotoromu i bez jetoj mezhdousobicy prihoditsja krutit'sja kak uzhu na skovorodke.

"Snishozhdenie" - fantasticheskij roman Andreja Vasil'eva, odinnadcataja kniga cikla "Fajroll", zhanr boevoe fjentezi, LitRPG. Ta cel', kotoruju postavili pered zhurnalistom Haritonom Nikiforovym, izvestnom v igre "Fajroll" pod imenem Hejgena iz Tron'e, stanovitsja vse blizhe i blizhe, no i prepjatstvija, otdeljajushhie ego ot nee, tozhe stanovjatsja vse slozhnee i slozhnee.

A strange, foreign world. Mysterious judges with capricious rules. Thousands of gamers find themselves split into factions and pitted against each other at the whim of an unknown higher power, with no idea how they got there or why they were chosen. Dying in this world hurts, but it's not the end: dead players always respawn to fight again.