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Originally Posted by Stalker One more Ukrainian here? Glad to hear that! 
Now I understand... |
nope. i feared, that you might interpret the last message this way. I'm from another former state
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Originally Posted by Stalker beginning of the WW2 (a very interesting recent novel here is Fyodor Berezin's "Red Stars" (Krasnye zvyozdy) and Anisimov's "Option "BIS" (Variant "BIS")) |
the first one is about ,5 years old and the other 2 years, if my memory serves me correctly, and the "zvjozdnyi labirint" books are almost impossible to get, once they have been out of print for 6 months. SO I lucked out in getting these two.
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Originally Posted by Stalker By the way I also like Lazarchuk's works in colaboration with Mikhail Uspensky in so called "cryptohistory" subgenre. |
These are good, but I think the best is his "sturmfogel"
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Originally Posted by Stalker The "monster" of modern post-Soviet cryptohistory is Andrei Valentinov from Kharkov with his "The Eye of Power" series. Recently, I've read his novel The Frontier (Rubezh) written in colabnouration with HL Oldie and kievites Dyachenko - a very interesting work merging cryptohistory with alternate history and folk-fantasy. |
I've read all of the "Eye" books, and to put the classifications in order, I think they are called secret history, not crypto history. The difference being that in crypto, some event or thing is changed, in secret history the things are the same, but some unnatural/mysticakl forces are in work. Valentinov is really good in his field AFAIK his a historian, his "Dezertir" about french revolution and "Nebesa likujut" about Ukraine history are also worth reading. With "Rubesh" I'll have to agree, this is a good mix of gernes, although a bit too many authors (5)