The Dark Herbalist - German trailer

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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.