Monday, July 10, 2023

Magic Dome Books library


In this post we list all our books in ENGLISH. GERMAN (DEUTSCHE) books are now moved to different post. We'll keep updating it so there is always something new to read. Release dates, audio release dates - it's all here. If you want to be among the first ones to know about our new releases - subscribe to our newsletter: English books or German books.

Numbers in the table show the amount of published chapters (and they also are direct links to texts).

Last updates:  
September 22 - Chaos' Game-2 by Alexey Svadkovsky is released
September 21 - The Hunter's Code-1 by Oleg Sapphire and Yuri Vinokuroff is released
September 19 - Loner-4: Guardian of the Dungeon by Alex Kosh - audiobook is released. Also Rogue Merchant-3: Shadow Seer by Roman Prokofiev - audiobook is released
September 18 - Sidus-1: First of His Kind by Dan Sugralinov is released
September 15 - War Eternal-1 by Yuri Vinokuroff is released
September 13 - Lord Valevsky: Last of the Line-3 by Vasily Mahanenko is released
September 5 - A Student Wants to Live-6: Blood Emperor by Boris Romanovsky is released. Also Nullform-6 by Dem Mikhailov audiobook is out
August 15 - War Eternal-1 by Yuri Vinokuroff is released
August 8 - A Student Wants to Live-3: Sangis by Boris Romanovsky - audiobook is released. League of Losers-3: The First Winter by Michael Atamanov - audiobook is out!
August 7 - Last Life, book 3: Blood Ties by Alexey Osadchuk is released
August 4 - A Student Wants to Live-5: Level Run by Boris Romanovsky is released
⇓⇓⇓ - Browse the entire list

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Bibliothek Deutscher Bücher


Dieser Beitrag ist eine Bibliothek. Alle unsere Bücher aud Deutsch sind hier aufgelistet. Bücher auf ENGLISCH werden jetzt in einen anderen Posten verschoben. Wir werden es ständig aktualisieren, damit es immer etwas Neues zu lesen gibt. Erscheinungsdaten, Veröffentlichungstermine für Hörbücher - es ist alles hier. Abonniere unseren Newsletter: English books or German books.

Die Zahlen in der Tabelle zeigen die Anzahl der veröffentlichten Kapitel (und sie sind auch direkte Links zu Texten).

Letzte Aktualisierungen:  
18. September - Im System-5: Souverän von Petr Zhgulyov - ist erschienen
12. September - Unterwerfung der Wirklichkeit-10 von Michael Atamanov - ist erschienen
8. September - Spiegelwelt-4: Der Zwielichtobelisk von Alexey Osadchuk - Hörbuch ist erschienen
7. September - Ein Student will leben-2: Die Architekten von Boris Romanovsky ist erschienen
4. September - Der Spieler Buch 6: Der Traumweber von Roman Prokofiev ist erschienen
30. August - Clan der Bären-5 von Vasily Mahanenko ist erschienen, Das letzte Leben von Alexey Osadchuk - Hörbuch erscheint
29. August - Der Donner kracht zweimal-5 von Mila Bachurova und Vasily Kriptonov ist erschienen
8. August - Der Weg eines NPCs 4: Lotse der Toten von Pavel Kornev - Hörbuch ist erschienen
7. August - Die Kalandaha Chroniken-1 von Jens Forwick - Hörbuch ist erschienen
2. August - Disgardium-10: Drohende Gefahr von Dan Sugralinov ist erschienen
1. August - Einzelgänger Buch 4: Wächter des Dungeons von Alex Kosh ist erschienen
⇓⇓⇓ - Browse the entire list

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Chaos’ Game by Alexey Svadkovsky


 

Chaos’s Game

Book 1

by Alexey Svadvkovsky

 

 


 

 Release - May 26, 2023

Pre-order here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1CTDRZ4

 

Prologue

The Junkyard

 

 

 

It was raining. The thick, dark yellow drops hissed as they hit the massive metal containers littering the landscape — huge, rusty tanks, and old, rotten drum barrels. Whenever it rained, all living creatures retreated, sheltering under whatever they could to escape the toxic droplets. The splashing when the rain hit the ground was enough to burn through the flesh to the bone, creating a long-lasting wound. The vapors from the poison dumped upon the earth from the heavens wafted upward from the ground, emitting a greenish-yellow fog that made it impossible to make out anything more than five steps away.

An enormous young rat sat in its nest desperately gnawing on scraps of plastic lying about. The raindrops drummed on the box that served as its nest, and the rat was smart enough to know that it would be some time before she’d be able to forage for sustenance. First, the rain must stop and then, the earth must dry and the toxic fumes evaporate. Thus, when she saw through the fumes the figure of the man in the rain, she sat up and tensed, hoping for an opportunity to attack him.

As it was, though, the toxicity of the environment shielded the man more reliably than any armor. He made his way between the huge containers and around the heaps of junk. There was no doubt a time when those one could see usable items in the junk piles, but year after year of acid rain had rendered everything into amorphous rubbish. The grotesque piles resembled hillocks, except rather than rock and stone, they comprised hunks of plastic, metal, and the devil only knew what else was in there. That might be a mountain of broken chairs, atop of which teetered something that might have been a throne, or had it been a toilet? Next came a forest of rebar and piping embedded in crumbling concrete. Rusty bars protruded any which way from dreary gray slabs. The man glanced at a bundle of faded purple cables, and quickened his pace. He still had a long way to go.


Monday, March 20, 2023

Using MidJourney to generate monsters’ images for use in books. Prompts and post processing.



The Generating of Rats

 

Using MidJourney to generate monsters’ images for use in books. Prompts and post processing.

 

 

 

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Hi everyone,

 

A while ago, I decided to try using AI art generators to create monsters for my RealRPG series In the System.


To illustrate it, I’d like to show you how I came up with the images of rats - especially because considerable parts of books 4 and 5 are set in the Dungeon which is their natural habitat. I used MidJourney’s $60 subscription plan which guarantees certain usage rights, including commercial use.

 

My books have this concept of Evolution similar to that of Pokémons - but unlike theirs, it doesn’t occur instantly. My rats have to live and hunt in order to accumulate experience until they can evolve into new stronger animals. For that reason, I had to come up with low-level rock rats (F-rank), rat wolves (E-rank), rat kings and queens (D-rank) and finally, the Rat Emperor or Empress (C-rank). So I basically needed 4 images in total, which sounded like an easy task (spoiler: I ended up with 7). Especially seeing as I’d already dabbled in generating three different types of monkeys, and everything had gone quite smoothly then. This time, however, I must have underestimated the challenge I was facing.


Wednesday, December 8, 2021

曲がり山の地下迷宮


曲がり山の地下迷宮

 下克上アンダードッグ

第一巻




February 28, 2022


1

 

 

親方アレンさん、赤ん坊は男の子だよ...

オーカスでもっとも成功している鉱員グループの一つをまとめる親方アレンは、妻の出産を助けていた老婆をじっと見つめ、自分を見返すその眼差しが陰鬱としていることにひどく戸惑った。こんなに喜ばしい知らせにも関わらず苦々しい顔をしているなんて、いったい何が起きたのだろうか?だが少しすると、彼も察しがついた。子は生まれたが、その子の泣き声は聞こえない...

「私の子は死んだのか?」

人生であらゆることを目にしてきたアレンではあったが、それは簡単に口に出せる言葉ではなかった。

「生きとるよ。」ヒーラーの老婆はそう陰気に答えた後、ほとんどささやき声ですぐに言葉を付け足した。

「だけど、生きていない方がよかったねえ...


Monday, August 30, 2021

Glory to the Dominion (Disgardium-9) by Dan Sugralinov



Disgardium-9
Glory to the Dominion
by Dan Sugralinov


Release - November 4, 2021

Prologue

After reaching the Ruby City, the capital of Belial’s Dominion, I flew too close to the Coal of Hellflame and hit a shield of palladium – a defensive dome around the Great Prince’s residence. That put the Cursed Inquisitors on my trail, led by the demon Dantalian. The same demon who disincarnated me.

And so I had my first death in the Inferno, and the resurrection timer began counting down:

 

Remaining time to respawn 9… 8… 7…

 

I made my peace with Hakkar’s inevitable death while Dantalian was talking to the imp Rofokal, another Cursed Inquisitor who somehow managed to see the particle of Order within me – the thing that gave me my permanent Enemy of the Inferno debuff.

As I hung in the great nothing of post-death, I began to think, trying to figure out what would happen next.


Thursday, April 1, 2021

Sperrgebiet von Yuri Ulengov

Sperrgebiet, Buch 1
Die Hüter der Vorhölle
von Yuri Ulengov


Release - 9. September 2021


1.Kapitel

 

 

Erdföderation, Orionsystem

Planet Rhapsodie, Sektor 3 der grauen Zone des Sperrgebiets. Einstufung: Bedingt sicher

Abwurfzone.


DIE RETTUNGSKAPSEL schlug so hart auf dem Boden auf, dass ich für einen Moment das Bewusstsein verlor. Meine inneren Organe schienen ihre Plätze getauscht zu haben. Hey, wenigstens war ich nicht in Stücke gerissen worden. Aber viel hatte nicht gefehlt. Hätte der Motor nur zehn Sekunden früher schlapp gemacht, wäre von mir jetzt nur ein nasser Fleck übrig.