Gennady Malianov

ISBN 978-1-895836-61-5 Malianov enters the Chernobyl exclusion zone to investigate an extortionist's threat to breach the nuclear containment "sarcophagus" and dump the radioactive waste into the Pripyat River.

[6] METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization Malianov is tracking some stolen plutonium to be smuggled, and finds that the illegal deals are carried out in virtual states.

[7] Originally published in METAtropolis: Cascadia In the story, a deodand is an artificial intelligence that represents some system of the nature: a lake, a pack of wolves, etc.

He sees it as a reflection of the growing pessimism in science fiction: [Malianov] "discovers that the only people ready to take up the dream of flight to other worlds are aged remnants of the former Soviet Union".

Reach for Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan, May 2014[13] An Achille Marceau builds solar updraft towers in Siberia, which generate electricity while taking CO2 out of the air, thus supposedly helping to combat the global warming while profiting from the market in carbon.