A brief review of Gene Wolfe’s novels “The Torture Master” and “The Peacemaker’s Claw.”

The author, who is one of the leaders of the Literary and Philosophical Group "Bastion", considers such formations as centers of crystallization in the creat...

Oh, how nice it is to burst into a beautiful peaceful city in an armored personnel carrier and kill, kill, kill... at least in dreams, if there is no possibi...

A brief review of Vladimir Mikhailov’s novel “Runaways from Nowhere.” The reviewer determines the place of the new novel among other space robinsonades and c...

Review of Alexander Gromov’s novel “Step Left, Step Right.”

Vladimir Rus' existed for two centuries: from the second half of the 12th century, from the reign of Andrei Bogolyubsky, to the second half of the 14th centu...

Earth's distant future? No—two distant future Earths existing in parallel! One is lasting peace and prosperity secured by a brutal dictatorship. In the other...

The history of Russia could have taken a thousand paths other than the one we know. A collection of stories by leading science fiction writers, “The Turning ...

Humanity knows very few people who stood at the origins of earthly civilization. And the most famous of them is King Gilgamesh - the great hero of Mesopotami...

The collection “Fiery Frontier” is dedicated to the events of the Great Stand on the Ugra in 1480. The book includes historical-mystical, historical-adventur...

“Gentlemen and guys! When some science fiction writer creates a new world, he has a reason to be proud of himself and rejoice, although, of course, pride is ...

Perhaps the most controversial and controversial figure in our history is Ivan the Terrible. Foreigners have long made “Ivan the Terrible” a symbol of the Ru...