Bibliography of Roman Zlotnikov

Arwendale Series

Genre: Fantasy

Annotation: Classical fantasy with their elves, orcs, gnomes ... or not? How does one feel that on the one hand it is a parody of Tolkienism, and on the other such unusual races appear, such non-childishly complex intrigues arise, and the inevitable and so vividly described battles are interspersed with interesting reflections on the nature of power and analogies with our world?

1. Arwendale (2004)
2. Duke of Arwendale (2005)
3. Emperor of the people (October 2007)
4. Cheeky Raid (September 2017)
5. The Long Sea (2017)
6. Arwendale. Unclean blood (2018) // sequel co-authored with Julia Ostapenko
7. Arwendale. Unclean blood. Roots of Darkness (2019) // co-authored with Julia Ostapenko
8. Arwendale the Doomed. Three of the morning star (2018) // prequel in collaboration with Anton Kornilov

Berserkers Series

Genre: Alien Invasion, Post-Apocalypse

Annotation: Earth fell under the onslaught of Aliens. For several decades now, enslaved people have become just genetic material for technocivilization. But among uncontrolled populations, those about whom mankind forgot in the Middle Ages, berserkers, begin to appear. Perhaps they are the last hope of mankind for liberation?

1. Rebellion on the outskirts of the Galaxy (1999)
2. Outskirts of the Galaxy [= Noble Rage] (2000)
3. Princess from the outskirts of the Galaxy (2008)

Eternal Series

Part of the cycle "Eternal World".

Genre: Space Opera, Fantastic Action

Resume: For a century and a half, there has been a war with a powerful alien civilization. Mankind has become accustomed to it as to something ordinary. The people united by the first blow, again began their undercover games. And no one even realizes that the only savior of mankind will be the one whom the Noble Dons - the only ones who selflessly continue to fight with strangers and who are rightly considered almost pirates in the worlds of people - are considered almost the Son of God. But is this the Eternal, how is it honored by the legends of the Noble Dons?

1. Swords over the stars (1998)
2. Risen from the Ashes (2000)
3. And many-sided came ... ["A Trap for the Scarlet Prince" (2003)] (2001)
4. Last Raid (2003)

Abstract prequel to the Eternal: on the very outskirts of human settlements, in the frontier, rather strange things begin to happen. But large states do not care about them yet, and the inhabitants of the outskirts have to sort it out almost alone. And before the attack on Zovros, apparently, there is very little time left.

1. Surviving from Ermak (2017) // co-authored with Igor Minakov and Alexei Volkov

The series also includes co-author series:

• prequel to the Hunter Hunter series with A. Nikolayev,
• sequel series "Hoahhin" with S. Budeev

Series Admiral

Genre: Popadanets , alternative history, progression

Annotation: Grand Duke Alexei Romanov , brother of Alexander III and Admiral General of the Russian Navy in one person, after falling from a horse, appears to be a slightly different person. Literally. And he knows the 21st century much more thoroughly than the 19th century, and he has been warned of the dangers and challenges of the 20th century. In such a situation, how to make up for information hunger without becoming a madman, without losing status, and also, taking advantage of one's official position, start up the history of wars, discoveries, and development on new tracks?

1. Admiral General (2011)
2. Admiral General. At the turn of the century (2011)
3. Admiral General. Takeoff (2012)
4. Admiral General. War (2012)

Gron Series

Genre: Trapper, non-magical fantasy, progression

Annotation: if you are 17 and you suddenly fall into a new world, what will you do? Save princesses, bring justice, gain magical abilities? And if you are a pensioner who has no romantic impulses, no ideals (such a job), and did the new world provide you only with the body of a local minor fool? You will probably try to find your place in the sun and live a new life quietly. But some Order believes that you are a stranger in this world, that you must be destroyed, because you can change this world. And this time the Order turned out to be right - a retired KGB colonel Kazimir Pushkevich, who has hundreds of operations on his account, can do this. And he will do it! The Order would have saved itself a lot of problems if it had not noticed the arrival of Gron ...

1. Doomed to battle (1999)
2. Mortal Strike (1999)
3. The Last Battle (2002)
4. Wonderful New World (2008)
5. There Will Be No Mercy (November 2009)
6. Heart of the tower (2015)

Earthman Series

Genre: Fiction, Popadanets

Annotation: This time the main character is still young. Nick has no life experience and skills. He goes through a harsh school of life already as a fellow. Asceticism, self-discipline, the ability to manipulate the interlocutor, excellent physical and mental qualities, which are based on the latest achievements of medicine - this is not a complete list of the advantages that Nick gained in the struggle for survival. But the tasks before him now are an order of magnitude more complicated. Tasks of a universal scale ...

1. Earthling (2012)
2. Earthling. Step to the Stars (2013)
3. Earthling. At the service of the Great House (2014)
4. Earthling. Russians do not give up (2016)

Empire Series

Genre: socio-political fiction, alternative fiction

Annotation: The end of the XX century. Russia. Poverty, devastation and decline. What could Russia be if the Emperor appeared in it? What it should become, with or without an emperor, is what this book is about. An exciting plot is just attached to it.

1. Viva, the emperor! (2001)
2. Armageddon (2002)

Com Series

Genre: Fiction, Popadanets

Annotation: The main character finds himself in a place where many worlds converge, there is magic and technology. The protagonist is waiting for adventures quite usual for the “fellow soldiers” and the “unexpected” disclosure of supernatural abilities in himself against the background of witty parodies of opposition Russian politicians (especially hilarious after the murder of one of the parody).

1. Com (2013)
2. Com In depth (2015)

Prince's Way Series

Genre: social science fiction (described by some readers as “Christian science fiction”)

Annotation: in one work Moscow, 21st century. In another cosmos, our future. In the third space too ... but is it earthlings? What unites them? And the Way of the Prince unites them. Everyone chooses his own path in life. But not everyone can embark on the path of the Prince. Someone may be a Warrior. The rest will remain "Peasants." And it's not about status, power or profession. And to the extent that you are ready to take responsibility for this world.

1. “The path of the Prince. Attack on the future "(2007)
   • The novel "Attack on the Future"
   • The story “An equivalent exchange” (published in the World of Fantasy for May'07 under the title “The Way of the Prince”)
2. “The path of the Prince. To be a warrior ”(2008)
   • The novel "To be a warrior"
   • The story "Test" (a logical continuation of the novel "Attack on the Future")
3. The story "The Lone Knight" (Collection "Kill the Alien".)

Ruigat Series

Genre: Popadants, Utopia

Resume: A world without violence and want has been living on its only planet for many years, abandoning expansion and any kind of coercion. Perhaps this is the reason for the loss of another planet - the cradle of civilization, due to the attack of the aggressor from the depths of the universe. Dear scientist, using the achievements of modern science, he ventured into a risky experiment - to return violence and coercion to his world in order to return the lost. He called on people to help, not just familiar with violence, but at war with each other. Over time, one of them - the admiral of the imperial fleet, takes over the management of the project. Will the inhabitants of a self-sufficient planet accept ideas alien to them ...

1. Ruigat. Birth (2010)
2. Ruigat. Leap (2013)
3. Ruigat. Fight (2016)

Series Tsar Fedor

Genre: Alternative Story, Popadane

Annotation: A simple Russian millionaire businessman lived for himself. I would even say "perfect." For on the one hand, undoubted managerial talent, and on the moral side, primitive like a brick. But what will happen to him if he suddenly falls into Russia during the time of troubles, into the body of a 10-year-old prince ? And what will happen to Russia if he applies his managerial talent to it?

1. Another chance (2010)
2. Eagle spreads its wings (2010)
3. Eagle soars up (2010)

Elite Elite Series

Genre: Alternative Story, Popadane

Annotation: A true Imperial guard, the elite of his space-time, the product of careful selection, training and education, falls into our 1941 year. What is it? Its deep past? An alternate universe? There is not much time left for reflection. But beyond the cycle of masterful operations, the manifestation of developed human abilities and thoughts about the elite, the reader may ask a question, but would he like to live in the future, which requires such an elite?

1. Elite of Elites (Imperial in 1941) (2009)
2. Elite of Elites - 2 (Cadres decide everything) (2015)

American Series

Genre: Alternative History

Annotation: Once upon a time there lived a simple Soviet guy who dreamed of America. He grew up in the Union, survived in the 90s, became a businessman and now he has almost stepped onto the blessed land of New York ... As fate put a pig, or unwinding time 100 years ago, or even throwing it in parallel reality. And now he will have to start all over from scratch, as a simple emigrant to the USA of the late XIX century

1. American (2015) // co-authored with Igor Grinchevsky
2. American. Way to the North (2015) // in collaboration with Igor Grinchevsky

Universe of Losers Series

Genre: Fantastic Action Space Opera, Popadanets

Annotation: Before us is a classic parrot - an unremarkable contemporary. But he doesn’t get childish. First into the jungle, then into the future, and then into the Universe of Losers. Think this is the end? There it was! He still has time to go to war, into the future, captive ... It's easier to say where he _not_ get.

1. Universe of Losers (2009) // co-authored with Sergei Musafin
2. Maneuvers of losers (2010) // co-authored with Sergei Musafin
3. A chance for losers [“War of the Losers”], Volume 1 (2011) // in collaboration with Sergei Musafin
4. A Chance for Losers, Volume 2 (2011) // co-authored by Sergey Musafin

Series Corrected Annals

Genre: Alternative History

Annotation: The beginning of action is 1381. Why is he so “developed” - guess for yourself.

1. Save Moscow (2015) // co-authored with Mikhail Roemer
2. Secrets of the Metropolitan (2015) // co-authored with Michael Roemer
3. Guns and bells (2016) // in collaboration with Mikhail Roemer

Prince Trubetskoy Series

Genre: Alternative Story, Popadane

Summary: 1812. The Napoleonic invasion of Russia is developing quite successfully for the French and their allies. Just about to fall, the ancient capital of the Russian state of Moscow. A new commander appears on the battlefield - Prince Trubetskoy. He leads his partisans towards the enemy, with a graceful wave of an officer sword directing the club of the people's war. Even Napoleon himself feels uneasy, and yet he still does not know that our contemporary is hiding in the guise of a Russian prince, who has studied in detail the tactics and strategy of Bonaparte himself and knows the methods of conducting military operations of the 21st century ...

1. Prince Trubetskoy (2015) // co-authored with Alexander Zolotko
2. Personal enemy of the emperor (2016) // co-authored with Vladimir Sverzhin

Lennar Series

Genre: Science Fiction

Annotation: What will happen to civilization, which the catastrophe drove into a huge ship and launched into an endless flight? Similar works: R. Heinlein “ Stepsons of the Universe”, K. Saymak “And there was a roar”.

1. Lennar Through darkness and ... darkness (2006) // co-authored with Anton Krasnov
2. Lennar Book of the Abyss (2006) // co-authored with Anton Krasnov
3. Lennar Alias ​​of God (August 2007) // co-authored with Anton Krasnov
4. Lennar Alien Monastery (2008) // co-authored with Anton Krasnov

Empire Series Strikes Back

Genre: Action, Space Opera

Annotation: Have you wanted to read a gangster action movie in the conditions of the distant future and deep space? Then you are at! It is here that several special agents of the Russian Empire are fighting the universal mafia. But, as in other books of the author, reflections on a better world order do not stop here.

1. The Empire Strikes Back (October 2007)
2. Starship Troopers (January 2009)
3. Mission Impossible (July 2010)
4. Twentieth Century Pirates (January 2019)

Hunter Hunt Series

Part of the cycle "Eternal World".

Genre: Space Opera

Resume: Before that war, which is described in the cycle “Eternal”, some time still remains. Maybe 30 years, maybe 100. Mankind went into space and successfully settled it. But it did not become one. And because there are ordinary conflicts, intrigues and dismantling of special services. But here in the lived-in sector of space strange things begin to happen, forcing agents of a potential enemy to work together. So, the Contact has already taken place, and before the space war there is very little time left ...

1. The Hunt for the Hunter (2005) // in collaboration with Andrei Nikolaev
2. Lucky Sanders (2005) // co-authored with Andrei Nikolaev
3. The rule of Russian special forces (2005) // in collaboration with Andrei Nikolaev
4. Raging Bear (2006)

Conversation with the Leader Series

Genre: Alternative History, Time Travel

Annotation: the banal stuffy eyeballs of many people, GG getting to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, communication with Stalin himself ... But it is unusual that the GG falls into the past in his body and regularly returns to the present, observes that everything is changing in the wrong direction what he expected.

1. Conversation with the Leader (2016) // co-authored with Alexei Makhrov
2. The path to the Leader (2016) // in collaboration with Alexei Makhrov
3. Meeting with the Leader (2017) // in collaboration with Alexei Makhrov
4. Voice of the Leader (2018) // in collaboration with Alexei Makhrov

Knights of the Threshold Series

Genre: Fantasy

Annotation: All people are scum. Elves are still big bastards. And all is bad. But there are Knights of the Threshold. They are a fairy tale, they are a horror story ... But they exist. And they never fight people. Since no matter how disgusting people are, those who come from beyond the threshold are many times worse.

1. The path to the threshold (2010) // in collaboration with Anton Kornilov
2. The Brotherhood of the Threshold (2010) // co-authored with Anton Kornilov
3. Creature Time (2011) // co-authored with Anton Kornilov
4. The Last Fortress (2012) // in collaboration with Anton Kornilov

Series The Native Noble

Genre: Alien-popadanets, Earth, our time, progression

Annotation: What would a representative of a much more advanced alien civilization feel if he fell into the realities of today's Russia? What would an ordinary resident of any reality do in an unfamiliar, alien world? Probably try to adapt. But it is not enough for a born nobleman to simply survive - he will try to correct what seems wrong to him. Will he succeed?

1. Born Nobleman (2013)
2. A born nobleman. Measure of Truth (2014)
3. A born nobleman. Defenders of the People (2014)
4. A born nobleman. Dawn (2016)

Hoahhin Series

Part of the cycle "Eternal World".

Genre: Space Opera

Annotation: The plot action of “View from the Side” begins with the expulsion of the Sisters captured on the Throne World and an attack on the Light.

1. View from the side (2017) // in collaboration with Sergey Budeev
2. Singularity Point (2017) // co-authored by Sergey Budeev
3. Who is who (2018) // in collaboration with Sergey Budeev

Novels

• 2012. Transition point [the inter-author series of Armada publishing house - 2012] (August 2009)

Genre: Mystic

Resume: The publishing house positions this series as an artistic processing of documents and dictaphone records of the Neman group associated with occultism, esotericism, ufology, and other unrecognized sciences. Will the end of the world await us in 2012, promised by this group? Or is it a global hoax? Or are the orderlies already waiting for this group? It is up to you to decide. Only one thing is clear: the group really exists.

• Call time. Need princes, not tati (September 2007)

Genre: Social Fiction

Annotation: Russia. The beginning of the 21st century. This book is about us today and a little tomorrow. About choosing a moral path. Without mysticism, aliens and immortals. But this is absolutely fantastic, because when you close the book, you will say to yourself “this is a fairy tale ... in which I want to live!”

• Russian fairy tales (2000)

Genre: Alternative History, Popadtsev

Resume: Three agents of competing special services fall into the past of the planet Galway, in which events are brewed that are very similar to the 1917th year in Russia. There is no chance to return. What will they choose? Merge with time or try to change the history of this planet?

• Cathedral (1999)

Genre: social-mystical science fiction (as opposed to the "Path of the Prince" can be called "pagan fantasy")

Annotation: Russia, the end of the 20th century. Is it possible that in these dark gangster times the forces of our Slavic past awakened? How will they change the heroes they touch?

Genre: Space Action

Annotation: Ronin is a samurai who failed to protect the owner and survived. He cannot restore his honor by committing ritual suicide. That is exactly Nick Foulder. A man who has lost his master, homeland and himself. Less than a grain of sand in this world. But it is he who turns out to be a key figure in the confrontation between mankind, which has long gone into space, and the Alien race, which has only become impatient with this part of it.

• Ronin (2003) // co-authored with Alexander Vorobyov

Genre: Fantasy

Annotation: Here is a classic of the genre: here is the guy Lyokha, who suddenly fell into the fantasy world. And Lyokha runs. He runs away, pursued by enemies, making friends and not understanding who he is and why this all happened to him. And only in the last half-page the co-authors will tell us something that will radically change our attitude towards the book.

• Angel Wing (2007) // co-authored with Oleg Markelov

Tales and Stories

• The story "An Unexpected Meeting" (Collection by R. Zlotnikov, V. Ardo "An Unexpected Meeting. The Bright Side of the Apocalypse") (2004)
• The Story “Cup” (Collection “Nobody Above Us” [on the 15th anniversary of the Fant. Action series]] (2007)
• The story “Not only money” (Collection “Save the Alien”. Continuation of the story by O. Divov “We ​​work for money” from the collection “Kill the Alien” [Eurocon-2008])

Book Preface

• Foreword to Oleg Matveychev’s book “Ears wave their donkey”