RU. Novel, 1995-1998. Written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov.

Apocalyptic urban fantasy, mystical thriller.

Amazing collaboration of the two authors differing so much from each other could not but result in an interesting book. This novel was begun as far as in 1995 and the last words were written in the summer of 1998. And here it is: white letters run across the blue screen, offerings to the gods of water-pipes and repairs are reeking at the "altars" made of the household gas-stoves; centaurs on two wheels bring to the heart attack the militia-men on duty at the roads, and the City is slowly rehabilitating itself after the cataclysm of the Great Toy War... But soon the tanks get immersed into the asphalt pavement, the motorized infantry shoots the inoffensive Minotaurus clad in jeans, and the radio casts a desperate cry: "To all who hear us! We are the City, we perish!" This cry for help will be heard.

The main heroes of the novel are: the writer Alik Zalessky, the detective Era Giselo, the city centaur Faul and the corned Minnie in jeans... human beings all of them. They don't know that the world has changed without asking their permission; they want to live but they're not allowed to. And so comes the day when the sons of the Yellow Serpent Keynary come on the wings of a great storm and they dance over the perishing City and transmute the elements one into another, taking under their control the things created. "We are to live here!" - and the sky splitted forever is smiling with a precious smile. Fine humor and tragic catharsis, conflicts of modernity and sparkles of mythology, dynamic plot and philosophical view on the reality - all this provides real pleasure even to the most exigent readers.

Published 8 times from 1999 to 2010 (Russia).