The book “Blades Shine Bright” opens a series of techno-fantasy novels by Kiev resident Ilya Novak. Before us is a world inhabited by fairy-tale creatures - goblins and elves, magicians and leprechauns. But in this world, unlike many others like it, there is Patina, a magical analogue of the Internet. And where there is a Network, there will also be hackers who are ready to risk their lives for the sake of forbidden knowledge that gives the common man access to High Magic and unheard of power...