“Nostalgic soft-cyber... is a voracious read.” (Ozon.ru, 2003)

“The book contains a chase, a duel with a killer, and other elements of an adventure novel. However, the most interesting thing here is not the plot twists, but a carefully, with visible pleasure, written out classic cyberpunk nightmare." ("Echo of Moscow", 2003)

"Virtual personalities are an ideology, a way of struggle, and almost a civil position. With his own “puppet theater” a person will deceive the “theater” around him, where the system will strive to place him. This idea is perfectly reflected in the novel “The Web.” (Internet.ru, 2003)

“The Web” is a masterpiece, next to which none of the compatriots have been lying next to it.” (“Hacker” #04 2001)

“The Web” does not need a condescending attitude: it is a quality thing in all respects. (“Knowledge is Power”, #9 1999)

“Probably this is the first novel about the Russian network , how can I put it, life, will end up in this quality in eternity, and, fortunately for us, this is a very worthy text.” (Kuritsyn-Weekly, 03/25/99)

“In every profession and in everyone communities have their own books: teachers have “Pedagogical Poem”, steelworkers have “How the Steel Was Tempered”. Only novels have not been written about the Internet. There are, of course, Gibson comrades, but they are imported. And now, finally, a novel has appeared, sustained in the national tradition." ("Internet" #9 98)

"One of the features of our today's literary Internet is its focus on a purely literary, gaming tradition that goes back to from Edgar Allan Poe. Many authors are able to compose, and quite professionally, with almost Borgesian ingenuity, unwind a paradoxically structured plot, but, alas, without Borgesian content... But there are also pleasant exceptions, such as Mary Shelley’s “The Voice” - a story written in the traditions of modern science fiction, actively using the realities of modern technological equipment of our lives, suddenly sends us straight almost to Andersen with the innocence and lyrical purity of the expressed feelings.” (“New World”, #2 2000)

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