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Year 2197.
Earth is suffering from the consequences of an environmental catastrophe. Cities the size of continents are drowning in a toxic industrial fog.
Max Bourne is a typical teenager. Like billions of other people, he is forced to live in the protective shell of the individual life support module. His habitat is the virtual Layer. But one day, circumstances force the young man to leave the in-mode. He has no idea that fate will lead him through unimaginable hardships, bring him face to face with military AIs, and teach him to survive in the distant Outlands. He will come to understand that the sum of all technologies, possessed by the four leading corporations of Earth, can either open the way to the stars or destroy human civilization.




The History of the Galaxy
Blind Punch by A. Livadny

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When did you realize you preferred science fiction to the exclusion of all else? Do you consider yourself a science fiction writer?

I consider myself a science fiction author first and foremost. I could write in some other genre, I suppose. But in 1978, my mindset had changed. That year, the Russian geographical magazine Vokrug Sveta - which featured a lot of quality fiction, sci fi included - began publishing the Russian translation of Robert Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky.
The book had a shattering impression on me. That was the first work of science fiction I'd ever read. I was a very emotional and susceptible child, so I was completely overwhelemed by what I'd just read. I still can't quite explain this experience because before that, I'd mainly read historical fiction by the likes of Alexander Dumas and Walter Scott. When I was seven years old, I even attempted to plough through Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, albeit with little success: I simply couldn't work out what was so special about that book.
Now Orphans of the Sky, that was different...

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