In the new world left after the Great War, everything has changed. In the shadow of the vast city of Zalem hanging in the sky lies a metropolis where people ...

The deadly adventures of Dirk Pitt - the “Indiana Jones of the underwater depths”! It’s scary to imagine the consequences of the explosion of a nuclear subma...

The Sakalibas of Islamic literature are former soldiers of the Slavic contingents of the Byzantine armies, who went over to the Muslim side during the battle...

We present to your attention a collection of stories by the writer Dmitry Kazakov. Most of his works belong to the genres: “science fiction” and “fantasy”. D...

Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf wrote stories: she made small notes and put them aside until they became part of novels or finalized works. In 1921, the ...

“...It is difficult to suspect Herzen of dislike for Europe. After all, this is precisely one of those Russian people who, in the words of Dostoevsky, “have ...

"Young Technician", 2003, No. 4.

The Toymaker and the General (1988)

What can unite a drug addicted mercenary - a former champion of the free city arena, a champion of the new order - a fanatical mechanic, a cynical and cruel ...

A short surreal story about a harmless, lonely giant and his sudden insight!

The Text publishing house introduces the Russian reader to one of the most famous novels by Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961). His hero is a real person, one of th...

In his book D.E. Afinogenov explores the history of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 784-847. mainly from two points of view. First of all, the scientis...