Showing results by author "Pavel Kornev"

A game is only a game if you can quit. This is something I learned the hard way. I just wanted to let off some steam in virtual reality and ended up getting murdered and imprisoned in the body of one of the undead - slow, clumsy, and cursed to die at the hand of other players over and over again. The only way out of this awful predicament was to find the legendary Scroll of Rebirth, but the helpless plague-ridden corpse would need to be turned into a real killing machine. If only people knew what it was like to level up a dead rogue....

In this world, science took the place of magic. Meanwhile, the transition from the era of steam to the epoch of Sublime Electricity is already underway. But magic hasn't simply disappeared without a trace. It still exists, concealed in the blood of the illustrious. Detective constable Leopold Orso of the metropolitan police counts himself among their number. He was bestowed a talent that allows him to bring others' fears to life. Leopold didn't go looking for trouble.

This fast-paced collection of novellas and short stories from leading Russian LitRPG authors sheds new light on their signature worlds. You're in Game! features works by Vasily Mahanenko, Andrei Livadny, Alexey Osadchuk, Michael Atamanov, Pavel Kornev, and Andrew Novak. Expect your favorite heroes to play second fiddle to an array of new main characters, once-minor plot lines to lead you in unexpected directions, and familiar story events to take surprising new turns.

Once, this world was dominated by the fallen, but humanity cast off their tyrannical rule and created a mighty empire with colonies spread out across the globe. The power of the metropolis is stronger than ever before, but its past is dark and its future cloudy. Old secrets are capable of destroying in one moment what took years to create. After all, nothing can save it from treason, not armadas of battleships nor bomb-laden dirigibles.

New Babylon is the capital of the mighty Second Empire. Dirigibles drift over the city, steam trains race down its tracks, and the factory chimneys never stop billowing smoke, even for a moment. The hegemony of science is unquestioned, and yet magic hasn't disappeared from the world. It remains dissolved in the blood of those who are called Illustrious. Hardline reductionists find that hard to accept, but it is not in their power to change the longstanding status quo. 

In this world, steam and electricity are the favored sources of power. Science has taken the place of religion, while magic is unknown by all but peculiar outcasts. But the border between reality and the underworld here is extremely thin. Thankfully, the adepts of scientific knowledge have found success holding back the onslaught of infernal creatures. Electricity is stronger than magic, but even it is not all-powerful. A former detective constable for the New Babylon Criminal Investigative Police, Leopold Orso is illustrious.

Prigranich'e - mesto, uzhe ne podvlastnoe zakonam nashego mira, gde pochti vsegda carit stuzha i dejstvuet magija. Tam net geroev, mestnye obitateli prosto starajutsja vyzhit' i ostat'sja ljud'mi. Tol'ko vot poluchaetsja jeto ne u vseh i ne vsegda.

Prigranich'e. Nemnogo ognja" - fantasticheskij rasskaz Pavla Korneva, zhanr boevaja fantastika. Provincial'nyj gorodok byl vyrvan iz nashego mir, no ego obitateli sumeli prisposobit'sja k novym uslovijam i vyzhit'. Magija izurodovala odnih i nadelila neverojatnymi sposobnostjami drugih, i Napalm iz ih chisla. No ognennyj dar piromanta horosh tol'ko v bor'be s ischadijami Stuzhi, edva li on pomozhet spravit'sja s predatel'stvom i obmanom.

"Padshij" - fantasticheskij roman Pavla Korneva, tret'ja kniga iz cikla "Vseblagoe jelektrichestvo". V jetom mire v chesti par i jelektrichestvo, nauka podmenila soboj religiju, a magija - udel nemnogochislennyh izgoev. No granica real'nosti i preispodnej tam chrezvychajno tonka, i adeptam nauchnogo znanija s velichajshim trudom udajotsja sderzhivat' natisk infernal'nyh tvarej. Jelektrichestvo sil'nee magii, no ne vsesil'no i ono. Byvshij detektiv-konstebl' sysknoj policii metropolii Leopol'd Orso - sijatel'nyj.

"Sijatel'nyj" - fantasticheskij roman Pavla Korneva, pervaja kniga iz cikla "Vseblagoe jelektrichestvo". V jetom mire srednie veka byli ne tjomnymi, a krovavymi. V jetom mire ljudi vsjakij raz zamirali ot uzhasa, kogda nebosvod zatmevali kryl'ja padshih. V jetom mire nauka vernula chelovechestvu svobodu, i ot okeana do okeana raskinulas' Vtoraja Imperija, imperija ljudej. Vody morej borozdjat boevye parohody, na zapasnyh putjah zhdut svoego chasa bronepoezda, a v nebesah parjat armejskie dirizhabli, no vsjo zhe ravnovesie visit bukval'no na voloske.

Prigranich'e - neskol'ko gorodov, vyrvannyh iz nashego mira v kraja vechnoj stuzhi, gde v zasnezhennyh lesah obitajut oborotni, a na zamjorzshih bolotah karauljat zhertv vurdalaki. Vyzhit' tam neprosto, pust' v arsenalah pomimo ognestrel'nogo oruzhija i zhdut svoego chasa boevye chary. Aleksandr Lednjov po prozvishhu Skol'zkij polagal, budto sbezhal iz Prigranich'ja navsegda, no proshloe sumelo dotjanut'sja do nego i v real'nom mire.

"Driada. Palaja listva i nebesnyj ogon'" - fantasticheskij rasskaz Pavla Korneva, otkryvaet cikl "Vseblagoe jelektrichestvo", zhanr boevaja fantastika. Poluchaja naznachenie na dolzhnost' detektiva-konsteblja sysknoj policii Novogo Vavilona, Leopol'd Orso i pomyslit' ne mog, chto otnyne emu pridjotsja vyslezhivat' sukkubov, izgonjat' poltergejsty i ohotit'sja na oborotnej.

"Prigranich'e. Likvidatory" - fantasticheskij rasskaz Pavla Korneva, zhanr boevaja fantastika. Vyrvannyj iz nashego mira provincial'nyj gorodok sumel zashhitit'sja Stuzhi, no magija legko prohodit skvoz' ljubye steny. Ona skaplivaetsja v ukromnyh ugolkah, potihon'ku izmenjaet okruzhajushhuju dejstvitel'nost' i porozhdaet chudovishh. Kto zachistit opasnye mesta? Razumeetsja, brigada likvidatorov!

"Spjashhij" - fantasticheskij roman Pavla Korneva, chetvertaja kniga iz cikla "Vseblagoe jelektrichestvo". Novyj Vavilon - stolica mogushhestvennoj Vtoroj Imperii. Nad gorodom parjat dirizhabli, po zheleznym dorogam mchat parovozy, a fabrichnye truby ne perestajut dymit' ni na mig, i vsjo zhe glavenstvo nauki ne bezogovorochno. Magija ne ischezla iz mira, ona do sih por rastvorena v krovi teh, kogo imenujut sijatel'nymi.

"Zombi ne letajut" - fantasticheskij rasskaz Pavla Korneva, zhanr boevaja fantastika. Zombi mogut hodit', begat', ubivat'. No letat' im ne dano, i jeto ostavljaet gerojam rasskaza prizrachnyj shans na spasenie. Ochen' prizrachnyj shans...

"Jekzorcist" - fantasticheskaja povest' Pavla Korneva, zhanr geroicheskaja fantastika, boevoe fjentezi. V Svjatyh Zemljah besy izdrevle tshhatsja proniknut' v trachennye grehovnymi pomyslami dushi ljudej, no jekzorcisty i jekzekutory, kto molitvoj, a kto kaljonym zhelezom, izgonjajut potustoronnih otrodij obratno v porodivshuju ih Bezdnu. No chto sluchitsja, esli jetim neljogkim remeslom pridjotsja zanjat'sja sluchajnomu cheloveku - Sebast'janu Martu, agentu korolevskoj tajnoj sluzhby?

Vojny zakanchivajutsja, skrytoe protivostojanie mezhdu stranami ne prekrashhaetsja nikogda. Vsegda budut ljudi, ohotjashhiesja za chuzhimi sekretami, i ljudi, jeti sekrety ohranjajushhie. Ne rycari na belyh skakunah, no rycari plashha i kinzhala. Neprimetnye rabotniki tajnyh sluzhb. Sebast'jan Mart v svoem dele odin iz luchshih, no dazhe on vsego lish' karta v besprestanno tasujushhejsja kolode.

"Oderzhimost'" - fantasticheskij rasskaz Pavla Korneva, vhodit v cikl "Put' Kejna", zhanr boevoe fjentezi. Kejn roda Lejmi ne samyj luchshij chelovek na svete, no i ne samyj plohoj. Prosto on oderzhim - oderzhim strast'ju unichtozhit' vseh demonov i nepremenno sobstvennymi rukami. Dejstvie rasskaza proishodit za neskol'ko let do sobytij, opisannyh v romane "Povjazannyj krov'ju".

"Jekzorcist. Shag vtoroj. Igra nachinaetsja" - fantasticheskaja povest' Pavla Korneva, zhanr geroicheskaja fantastika, boevoe fjentezi. Besy iz veka v vek rvutsja v dushi ljudej iz seroj bezdny, v kotoroj nikogda nichego ne proishodilo i nikogda nichego proishodit' ne budet...Jekzorcisty i jekzekutory molitvami i ognem spasajut dushi besnovatyh i izgonjajut nechistyh obratno v porodivshuju ih pustotu...Tak bylo s samogo sotvorenija mira i tak dolzhno bylo byt' do konca ego dnej.

"Besserdechnyj" - fantasticheskij roman Pavla Korneva, vtoraja kniga iz cikla "Vseblagoe jelektrichestvo". V jetom mire v chesti par i jelektrichestvo, nauka podmenila soboj religiju, a magija - udel nemnogochislennyh izgoev. No granica real'nosti i preispodnej tam chrezvychajno tonka, i adeptam nauchnogo znanija s velichajshim trudom udajotsja sderzhivat' natisk infernal'nyh tvarej.