Vita Nostra

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A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Valley of the Conscience ( Russian: Долина Совести) was awarded the Bronze Snail, [18] Russian science fiction - 2002, [19] Sigma-F, [20] and the "Golden Caduceus" award at the Golden Bridge 2002 festival.

Calidons" ( Russian: Калидоны) (from the book The Ritual) are gigantic white birds, which live near the dragons.The novel, with its distinctive feminist tang, starts with the sentence: “When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist. Housekeeper" ( Russian: Домохранец) (from the book The Well Master) is a little house demon, looks like a little man with spider's legs.

The Green Card (2000) ( Russian: Зелёная карта), later adapted into a screenplay, is a work of realist fiction about residents of Kyiv who have received an opportunity to immigrate to the United States. Chugaister was taken from the Ukrainian mythology, but is somewhat different from the original creature. Adventures of Masha Michailova ( Russian: Приключения Маши Михайловой); also published in Ukrainian ( Ukrainian: Пригоди Марійки Михайлової).This time, she dips into The Odyssey for the legend of Circe, a nymph who turns Odysseus’ crew of men into pigs. A complex blend of adventure, magic, science, and philosophy that probes the mysteries of existence, filtered through a distinct Russian sensibility, this astonishing work of speculative fiction—brilliantly translated by Julia Meitov Hersey—is reminiscent of modern classics such as Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, Max Barry’s Lexicon, and Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale, but will transport them to a place far beyond those fantastical worlds. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival.

During this period "The gates" are formed: objects of the unknown nature, that look like a stone arch with a mirror inside. Magicians Can Do Anything (2001) ( Russian: Магам можно всё) was awarded the "Golden Caduceus" award at the 2001 Golden Bridge festival. They have evolved to survive an apocalypse in the following way: females lay eggs once every twenty years, right before the apocalypse. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs. The Execution (1999) ( Russian: Казнь) received a "The Wаnderer" [16] award in 2000 and the Reader Appreciation award "Sigma-F" [17] in 2000 as the Novel of the Year.Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. The Cave (1998) ( Russian: Пещера) was awarded the "Moon Sword" [14] prize in 1999 for the best work of "mystical literature" published between 1997 and 1999.