Sergei Lukyanenko bibliography
The story is about several contemporary teenagers "copied" into an artificial environment, where they are forced to play a game with very harsh rules.
The novel, harsh and romantic, mixes various genres, such as "sword and planet", "simulated reality" and "children violence".
Two brothers stumble upon a time machine hidden in an artifact dating back to Ancient Egypt.
They find themselves in the future, where a Sphinx named Shidla helps them escape and goes with them on an adventure spanning thousands of years of history.
Each subsequent book involves more ethical problems and philosophy, while at the same time the scale of action steadily increases.
This is Lukianenko's only major work that is partially set in the same imaginary universe as the "Road to Wellesberg" series of short stories.
The book is full of fighting with curious weapons (the most effective are plane swords), and galactic laws.
The ancient vanished civilization, the "Seeders" (who seem to have born all known galactic races), left a Temple at each inhabited planet.
The action in the final book approaches the level of total war between two interstellar civilizations with incompatible basic values — and our friends are forced to be between the upper and the nether millstone.
Despite harsh action, the style is somehow intrinsically poetic, even metaphoric — Serge will have to deal with a different culture whose values are based on beauty.
The Wingers are descendants of the people who sold the sunlight, and the Flyings are a kind of undead who serve a Dark Lord.
Danny joins the side of the Wingers, and starts his journey attempting to acquire "True Light".
The people from real world can get inside and achieve "full presence" effect using special psycho visual interface, called "deep-program".
The story reaches its climax when Leonid realizes that he stalks a man who exists in The Deep on its own, without being connected from a real world.
In the final novel "Последний Дозор" the main character Gorodetsky deals with a group of people that organize the Last Watch to empower their abilities and find the artifacts of great Merlin.
The embryo's DNA can be altered to make a future "specialist" - a human genetically adapted to a specific job.
Two thousand years ago, a man only known as the Redeemer appeared in this world, bringing with him the wonders, and dangers, of the Word — a divine power that many wish to possess.
Within him... or with him... Beautiful away (Прекрасное далеко) H is for Human (Л - значит люди) The man that couldn't do very much (Человек, который многого не умел) Сasual Fuss (Временная суета) Poached fugu (Фугу в мундире) Building of the Epoch (Стройка века) Dive to the Stars (Донырнуть до звезд) Note (Ремарка) Recurring Funeral (Периодическая тризна)
