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:  

February 1 - Last Life-5: The Edges of Power by Alexey Osadchuk is released
January 30 - Sidus-1: First of His Kind by Dan Sugralinov - audiobook is released
January 29 - An Ideal World for a Sociopath-2 by Oleg Sapphire is released
January 25 - In the System-7: The Choice by Petr Zhgulyov is released
January 22 - A Shelter in Spacetime-1 by Dmitry Dornichev is released
January 17 - Rogue Merchant-5: The Devil Archetype by Roman Prokofiev - audiobook is released
January 16 - Lord Valevsky: Last of the Line-3 by Vasily Mahanenko - audiobook is released
January 11 - The Healer's Way-2 by Alexey Kovtunov and Oleg Sapphire is released
January 4 - The Hunter's Code-2 by Yuri Vinokuroff and Oleg Sapphire is released
December 27 - Last Life-3: Blood Ties by Alexey Osadchuk - audiobook is released
December 26 - Disgardium-12: Unity by Dan Sugralinov - audiobook is released. Reality Benders-10: To Change the Past by Michael Atamanov - audiobook is released
December 19 - Invasion-3: The Portals of Altameda by Vasily Mahanenko - audiobook is released

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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:  

29. Januar - Saga Online-2: Höllenritt von Oliver Mayes - Hörbuch ist erschienen
26. Januar - Der Alchemist-2: Der Wald der Sehnsucht von Vasily Mahanenko - Hörbuch ist erschienen
22. Januar - Das letzte Leben-3: Blutsbande - Hörbuch ist erschienen
11. Januar - Außenseiter 5: Das Labyrinth des Schreckens von Alexey Osadchuk - Hörbuch ist erschienen
10. Januar - Sperrgebiet 4: Vorstoß in die Hölle von Yuri Ulengov - Hörbuch ist erschienen
3. Januar - Freiherr Walewski: Der Letzte seines Stamms Buch 3 von Vasily Mahanenko ist erschienen
25. Dezember - Die Kalandaha Chroniken: Builder von Jens Forwick ist erschienen
21. Dezember - Freibeuter-2: Auf der Jagd nach einem Manuskript von Igor Knox ist erschienen
19. Dezember - Die ideale Welt für den Soziopathen-2 von Oleg Sapphire ist erschienen
14. Dezember - Disgardium-11: Im Abseits von Dan Sugralinov ist erschienen
8. Dezember - Ein Student will leben-3: Sangis von Boris Romanovsky ist erschienen

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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.

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.

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

Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B09LGXYKQR

February 28, 2022

第1章

 

 

「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...」

Sperrgebiet von Yuri Ulengov

Sperrgebiet, Buch 1
Die Hüter der Vorhölle
von Yuri Ulengov

Release - 9. September 2021

Pre-order - https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08Y75B8D4

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.

Fantasia by Simon Vale

Fantasia

Second Shot

by Simon Vale

 

Release - June 7, 2021

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZNPQVP2

Chapter 1

 

I swear she was the most beautiful woman in the world. And she was laughing.

“Three huge wet fish,” I said. “I’m not making this up, I swear!”

That laugh! And I was laughing along with her. Not at my own story, which was mediocre, C+ at best. Out of sheer happiness.

The Crow Cycle by Dem Mikhailov

The Crow Cycle
by Dem Mikhailov
Book 1

Release - August 11, 2021

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XJNK1CJ

Chapter One

 

            The bright virtual sun hung directly over the great city of Algora, generously pouring light over the roofs of houses, reflecting off of colorful stained-glass windows, and drying out puddles left from yesterday's rain. The rain had evidently been quite heavy. It cleansed the city from dirt and garbage, sending them into the gutters, and thus straight into the deep catacombs of Algora.

Guardian of the Dead by Pavel Kornev

Guardian of the Dead

An NPC's Path, book 4 by Pavel Kornev

 

Release - May 20, 2021

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J88Y9VP 

Prologue

 

Offline

If you want to take a look down into a chasm, just look down the barrel of a gun. No, not when you’re busy cleaning it, in breach of all safety regulations, but when it’s clenched firmly in a stranger’s hand, pointing at your... let’s say, at the bridge of your nose.

This was where it was more or less pointing at me.

Inside it was pure darkness; behind it was the blurred silhouette of a man. My gaze failed to focus on the villain himself, so mortally fixated it was on the wrong end of the silencer. Yes, “mortally” was the right word, I assure you.

The Dark Herbalist - German trailer

Kräutersammler der Finsternis Audible / Amazon

Nullform-1 by Dem Mikhailov

Nullform, book #1

by Dem Mikhailov

Release - April 5, 2021

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NGVGYK1

Chapter 1

 

Operation log:

Hydration – complete.

Assembly – complete.

Resuscitation – complete.

 

Did green letters just flash before my eyes? But my eyes are closed. How am I seeing letters? Words, even...

Assembly? Hydration? What's that supposed to mean? Damn, my head hurts. And my left elbow... and my lower back. It hurts so bad I want to puke. Constant, exhausting pain. Horrible pain. Not like I got hit or something. It's more serious, something chronic... I know it for sure... or do I just feel it?

Clan Dominance: The Sleepless Ones-6 by Dem Mikhailov

Clan Dominance: The Sleepless Ones-6 

by Dem Mikhailov

Release - May 25, 2021

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RF1DP6S

The Land Beyond Is not the End

Chapter 1

Arriving, Falling, and Getting In

We never managed to found out whether our bald imp had managed to set the wooly mammoth Callowan on fire.

Obviously, a living creature would not have blown up, but the mammoth could have gone off his rocker, making lots of noise and causing us a lot of trouble. On second thought, that might have been for the better. The Land Beyond wasn’t all too welcoming a place; our troubles began as soon as we arrived.

An interview with Alex Bobl - founder of MDB

Alexey Bobl is the man behind Magic Dome Books: a literary agency and publishing house created five years ago. Since then, they’ve released hundreds of books in Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Czech and Korean languages. Today, I’m talking to Alex about books, authors and literary agents, about the differences in markets all over the world, about net literature braving the pandemic this year and its survival strategies for the coming year.

 Can you tell me how MDB came about?

In actual fact, it all started when I became literary producer at EKSMO, Russia’s biggest publishing house. It was my job to compile and produce new science fiction and fantasy series. At some point, I read a new novel by Andrei Livadny. I remember telling him, “This book just begs to be translated!” And he said, “Okay, go ahead, then.” And I remember telling the same thing to Vasily Mahanenko. At the time, I didn’t have a clear-cut idea of a future publishing business yet. Still, I decided to give it a go. I was curious and enthusiastic, and that seemed to motivate me a lot. Everything happened so fast. Before I got involved with EKSMO, I used to be a writer. So being a writer, I knew what a writer needed, and being a producer, I knew a publisher’s needs. And finally, when I was ready to combine these two things, MDB was born.

Unfrozen: Cooldown by Anton Tekshin

Unfrozen, book 1
Cooldown
by Anton Tekshin

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V9FT983

Release - May 17, 2021

In Place of a Prologue

 

It may sound trite, but every bad story has to start someplace: a point of origin or a zero hour — call it what you like — but after it everything goes up in flames and plummets to the coldest climes of hell for a smoke break with the devil.

So if I’m going to tell this story in an orderly manner, then I had better start with my death…

“Listen to me, you’ve got to surrender peacefully!” Goha’s voice again hissed over the radio. “Why cause a shootout? You’ll just terrorize the townspeople.”

“Come off it,” I responded lazily, tinkering with the settings of an old laptop, its screen displaying a low-res feed from the exterior cameras. “Why don’t you just go ahead and offer to whack me for free, like, for ‘resisting arrest’ or something? Nah. I’m not about to make your life that much simpler.”

“Nobody is going to knock you off…”

The Range: Lords of the Ruins by Yuri Ulengov

The Range, book 2

Lords of the Ruins

by Yuri Ulengov

Release - May 14, 2021

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P524CBH

Chapter 1.

Earth Federation, Orion System. Rhapsody, Sector 3 of the Gray Zone—designated safe zone of the Range. The ruins, near the Green Zone.

It took us about 24 hours to reach the Green Zone borders—we had to make a stop to take care of Margot and take a desperately-needed rest. By the time I caught up with my friends, I was on a brink of collapse. Diss’ condition was no better. On top of being severely exhausted, I was also withdrawing from the stimulants, heroically fighting occasional bouts of nausea, dizziness and weakness. I knew I could power through, of course, in the most extreme case if needed. But that wasn’t the case. We intentionally avoided busy routes, found a dilapidated house with an intact basement, locked ourselves in it and fell asleep, breaking all the rules, not even bothering to have someone keep watch. Screw it. No one was following us—we checked, and the probability of running into someone random in this area was very low.

Disgardium, Buch 3: Die Vernichtende Seuche

Disgardium, Buch 3: Die Vernichtende Seuche

von Dan Sugralinov

Release - 15. März 2021

Pre-order - https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08LNMYQTS

Kurze Zusammenfassung von Buch 1 und 2

Planet Erde, 2074-2075

AUF UNSEREM PLANETEN leben derzeit 20 Milliarden Menschen. Ein Drittel davon sind Nicht-Bürger: jene, die für die Gesellschaft als wertlos betrachtet werden und daher kein Recht darauf haben, in den Genuss der Annehmlichkeiten der Zivilisation zu kommen. Das UN-Bildungsministerium verlangt von jedem Teenager zwischen 14 und 16 Jahren, täglich eine Stunde in Disgardium zu verbringen. Nachdem Alex Sheppard beim Erstellen seines Charakters einen Fehler gemacht hat, der zu Problemen beim Leveln führt, verliert er schnell das Interesse am Spiel. Über ein Jahr lang verbringt er zusammen mit Eve O’Sullivan, einem Mädchen aus seiner Nachbarschaft, die in ihn verliebt ist, die obligatorische Stunde auf einer Bank neben dem Gasthaus der Sandbox.

Die Triumphale Elektrizität: Die Illustren von Pavel Kornev

Die Triumphale Elektrizität

Die Illustren

von Pavel Kornev

Release 29. April 2021

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08MQH5XNY

1

 

IST ES WAHR, dass alle Lebewesen, denen es bestimmt ist zu kriechen, nicht fliegen können? In der Tat!

Menschen sind nun einmal nicht dazu geschaffen, zu fliegen, weshalb jeder Versuch dazu verdammt war, in einem Absturz zu enden. Man nehme nur das Beispiel der Gefallenen…

 

Ich öffnete die Augen. Ich kniff sie sofort wieder zu, aber es war zu spät. Als ich sie erneut öffnete, erhaschte ich einen Blick auf den grauen, rauchverhangenen Himmel, der sich wirbelnd über mir drehte und die Illusion erzeugte, ich läge auf einem Rettungsfloß inmitten eines riesigen Strudels. Der bloße Gedanke, aufstehen zu müssen, war schon schmerzhaft, also blieb ich, wo ich war, feige ausgestreckt auf dem Müllhaufen, der meinen Sturz abgefangen hatte.

Galaktogon: Das Spiel beginnt von Vasily Mahanenko

Galaktogon, Buch 1
Das Spiel beginnt
von Vasily Mahanenko

  

Release - 11. Mai 2021

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08QG5KXM8

„NA, WAS SAGT IHR, NERPS – sollen wir uns mit einem großen Knall verabschieden? Wer hat was?“, fragte unser Gildenanführer fröhlich und brachte, ohne eine Antwort abzuwarten, seine Schriftrolle des Vernichtenden Nebels zum Einsatz. Sofort senkte sich eine aschgraue Wolke auf den riesigen Wald, der mit seinen seltenen Kreaturen und Pflanzen das ganze Ausmaß unseres Reiches im Spiel verkörpert hatte. Wenn ich mich recht erinnerte, würde nun innerhalb einer Stunde nichts mehr von all dem übrig sein – abgesehen von verbranntem Ödland, das selbst die Mobs meiden würden. Während der Fluch des Gildenanführers sein Werk tat, wurde der nahegelegene kaiserliche Palast zum Zielobjekt für jeden einzelnen der seltenen und mächtigen Flüche, die sich in den Schatztruhen unserer Gilde angesammelt hatten. Tatsächlich waren einige dieser Flüche mehr als nur selten – sie waren legendär, einzigartig. Allerdings ist ein Fluch wie der Schwarze Tod, der unmittelbar eine ganze Stadt verwüstet, nicht gerade für die öffentliche Verbreitung geeignet. Der Schwarze Tod nimmt keine Rücksicht auf die Bevölkerungszahl, das heißt: Es spielt keine Rolle, ob er auf eine Hütte mit zwei Personen oder auf eine Millionenstadt angewendet wird – alles stirbt.

Phantom-Server: Jenseits der Realität von Andrei Livadny

Phantom-Server, Buch 1:

Jenseits der Realität 

von Andrei Livadny

Release - 19. April 2021
Bei Amazon vorbestellen - https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08NR9P32S

Kapitel 1

 

Abmelden

 

Ich saß krumm in einem Stuhl, der alles andere als ergonomisch war.

Giftige Industrienebel verstärkten die Reflexionen in meinem Atelierfenster. Die grüne Anzeige der Luftschleuse leuchtete beruhigend: alles dicht.

Willkommen in der Technosphäre. Anders als im Cyberraum könnte hier jedes Versagen zu einer mittleren bis großen Katastrophe führen. Zauber und Vorteile? Fehlanzeige!

Ich brauchte ein paar Minuten, um wieder in die echte Welt zurückzufinden. Seit sechs Monaten diente der VR-Pod mit seinen Massagerollen und den Lebenserhaltungsmodulen nur noch als Wäschekorb. Das hatte seinen Grund.

Damals hatte ich mich entschlossen, die relative Sicherheit des Pods gegen eine unbekannte Erfahrung einzutauschen. Was für eine Veränderung! Keine mittelmäßigen Hologrammdarstellungen des Cyberspace mehr! Keine Stoßmembranen, die mir in die Rippen pikten. Jetzt hatte ich die virtuelle Welt immer dabei. Das Geheimnis war ein kleines Implantat, das wie ein altmodisches Hörgerät hinter meinem Ohr befestigt war. Millionen von Nanonadeln stachen an der Schläfe und Wange in meine Haut.

Alpha Rome: Volper by Ros Per

Alpha Rome, book 1:

Volper

by Ros Per

Release - April 12, 2021

Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PVWMNJS

Chapter One. This is Just the Beginning.

 

 

The capsule lid closed shut with a soft hiss, cutting off connection to the outside world.

That was it. There was no going back. I meticulously mulled everything over and ran through various scenarios in my head. There was no other option. The only thing left to do was to go forward into the unknown, where I would have no chance of returning to my previous life.

A dense fog enveloped me. I was suspended in it, unable to feel the weight of my own body. Far away, right at the very edge of my consciousness, a light started to emerge. It was microscopic at first, but then it began to grow with every second until it was literally filling my entire mind in a flash.

“Welcome to Alpha Rome,” a voice announced in my head. “Commencing capsule data retrieval... Data retrieval complete. Medical Capsule ANV-734685-EK3573, no disconnect mode... Error! Consulting server administration... Additional contract received... Excerpt from contract: Vladimir Ignatenko has signed a contract with the Administrators of the Alpha Rome Project agreeing to everlasting residence within the servers belonging to the Administrators and the lifting of the 19-hour-virtual-reality-play-time limit that has been implemented in accordance with the Ministry of Health Protection Act № 17554.  This contract is based on a medical report for Vladimir Ignatenko, which outlines a critical health condition connected to Mr. Ignatenko’s advanced age. To gain access to permanent residence within the Alpha Rome Project servers, Mr. Ignatenko agrees to the cancellation of his ability to exchange in-game earnings for real-life currency and accrue in-game bonuses for real-life currency, as well as to paying for access to the game for the next twenty years. Is this information correct?”