New Dark Ages. Colony
4.73
The year 2141.
Humanity on Earth has not yet recovered from Clodis disease, which led to the largest pandemic in half a century when a new pathogen that infects solely pregnant women emerges. A group of immunologists is trying to find out what it is and whether its appearance is related to the neutrino bursts recorded around the planet.
The population of the Martian Colonies exceeds one hundred thousand inhabitants, and a third of them are born on Mars. They lose out on the race for jobs to super-specialists from Earth in the knowledge-intensive economy of Mars and are forced to work like slaves in low-skilled manual jobs. The more they come of age, the more they yearn for change, not realizing that these changes threaten the very existence of the Colonies.
Colony is the first book of the sci-fi series New Dark Ages about the world in the 22nd century. This is a story about humanity, which proves that despite all the achievements, it does not change. And neither the increase in life expectancy nor even the transformation into a two-planet species guarantee humanity’s salvation.
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 904
Print run: 37 000
Genre: sci-fi
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 304
Print run: 13 000
Genre: Popular science essays
Theory of Improbability
4.73
Why do we age? Is it true that most bacteria are harmless? What benefits do we get from a dead octopus in a nightclub? Max Kidruk answers these and other questions in his new book.
Theory of Improbability was created based on the scripts of the popular science radio blog with a corresponding name, the episodes of which were broadcast on the Ukrainian Radio in 2021. The book contains seventy stories that debunk widespread myths, and also explain various technologies, events and phenomena from the point of view of science. What were Tyrannosaurs really like, why shouldn’t solar power plants be built in the Sahara, are there extra spatial dimensions, etc. All these stories are simple and concise, and at the same time they are impressive. Each discovers something new – incredible and exciting. Something one can use to show off on a date or talk about with friends.
Don’t Look Back and Stay Silent
4.41
Imagine that there is a place on Earth that is frozen in time. A place that can hide anyone who wants to escape from reality. To get to it, you just need not look back and stay silent. There is just one problem: sometimes things in that place appear to be scarier than those you’re hiding from.
After his family moves, fourteen-year-old Mark is forced to go to a new school. He is shy, well-read, and highly intelligent — a perfect target for bullying. Becoming more and more withdrawn every day, the boy dreams of a world where there is no bullying and groundless cruelty.
One day, Mark meets Sonia, a girl from his school, who tells him about the existence of such a world and the possibility of getting there… just by using the elevator in their house. He does not understand why Sonia makes up nonsense that is easy to refute, but in the end, he goes after her. Mark has no idea that an ordinary trip to the tenth floor hides something much worse than the destruction of ideas about the real world.
Year: 2017
Number of pages: 512
Print run: 60 000
Genre: mystical novel with elements of horror and techno
Year: 2018
Number of pages: 480
Print run: 35 000
Genre: social novel
Godlessness
4.19
People are social creatures. The existence of a society is impossible without cooperation, understanding, and justice. But does all of that exist outside society when a person is on the verge of life and death?
A woman in despair with a large amount of money, ignoring the calls from her husband; a Russian pilot trying to overcome aerophobia after the death of his girlfriend in the MH17 plane crash; one of the most famous Bavarian politicians in the peak of his career who hates his job; an American National Football League player, whose life collapsed after one unsuccessful play. A Catholic Cardinal going to a country where there is no Catholic Church … Strangers with different fates. The only common thing they share is Flight 341, and it leads to the greatest challenge in their lives.
Godlessness is an attempt to understand whether there is something within us that keeps from transforming into animals in a place where morality does not work, in a place where there is no God.
The Inner Side of Dreams
4.32
There is no child that has never had any nightmares. But what is supposed to be done if the horror from a nightmare creep into real life? Two-year-old Theo’s heart suddenly stops beating during the surgery. For thirty-six seconds, the boy was on the edge between the world of the living and the dead. But in the end, he returned to life.
Two years after the incident Myron Belinskyi realizes that his son returned not alone. Something came back with Theo: slipped into consciousness while the boy was on the other side of the line most of us cross only once. In a desperate attempt to save his son, Myron leaves for the United States, where the latest advances in neurotechnology allow glimpsing into human dreams. He has no idea that the eagerness to help leads to a disaster because the nightmare comes alive as soon as the one who settled in little Theo’s dreams realizes that he is being watched.
Year: 2016
Number of pages: 528
Print run: 33 000
Genre: social drama with elements of mystic
Year: 2019
Number of pages: 560
Print run: 28 000
Genre: science fiction novel with augmented reality
Until the Light Fades Away
4.45
No sacrifice is worth trying to fix the past, because the ruthless world will always find a way to make you pay back.
Sisters Ruta and India, despite their unusual names, live quite ordinary lives: India is studying to be a doctor, and Ruta is finishing high school. But everything suddenly changes when India’s groom dies in an accident. Previously close sisters grow distant, blaming each other for what happened. And when it seems there is no way they can make things up, Ruta discovers that she is able to influence reality while asleep. Soon, whimsical shadows appear in her dreams, and the closer they get, the faster the light around the girl fades away. With an uncontrollable desire to bring back her former life, Ruta does not notice how each subsequent dream becomes darker and darker.
Bot. Atacama Crysis
4.42
If Tymur, a programmer from Kyiv, had time to read a letter with a warning from a stranger, then he would not have involuntarily become a murderer, running away from boy-bots with bloodshot eyes. He let the genie out of the bottle in the Chilean desert and didn’t really know much about nanotechnology and forbidden experiments made on people… It’s just when you know how to do your job very well, expect that someone will definitely use you. And you will discover something in yourself that you had not known about until now…
Year: 2012
Number of pages: 544
Print run: 27 000
Genre: techno thriller
Year: 2015
Number of pages: 512
Print run: 25 000
Genre: techno thriller
Bot. Guayaquil Paradox
4.31
Tymur, the best programmer of the TTR company in the past, is no longer able to do programming. He is trying to forget the events that happened five years ago when the bots he created became flesh and turned into terrible murderers. But he does not yet know that a new epidemic of aggression is already spreading in Guayaquil. A huge number of people end up in psychiatric clinics after committing particularly brutal crimes. They all draw the same fractals and repeat the name ― Tymur…
Stronghold
4.40
Many generations have tried to reveal the mystery of the lost Inca city of Paititi. According to legends, ancient tribes hid the largest stock of gold in it. Five friends go in search of this mysterious city and, surprisingly, find it. But are they the first to try to get rich easily?
They do not yet know that no one has returned alive from these lands…
Year: 2013
Number of pages: 560
Print run: 29 000
Genre: psycho thriller
Year: 2014
Number of pages: 604
Print run: 24 000
Genre: techno thriller
Ruthless Sky
4.19
A terrible disaster occurred at the Paris airport. The plane that crashed was designed and assembled in Ukraine. The daughter of an aircraft engineer is trying to understand what caused the accident. She will do anything to find out the truth, regardless of the consequences.
For the Sake of the Future
4.15
“This book is not about a nuclear winter, the total annihilation of humanity, or any other apocalypse. For the Sake of the Future is a collection of different short stories. I mean truly different. Most of them were written long before the publication of the book, the oldest one dates to 2011, and only three out of ten ― P61, Again and Again, and For the Sake of the Future ― are first published. The rest were released in various collections of short stories and magazines (and something tells me that only few of my readers have read them all). The collection has everything: horror, techno, mysticism, social, and humorous stories. More than once while reading you will feel dizzy from the mood and pace changes. But in the end, a good collection of short stories, in my opinion, should impress with its disparity, otherwise, it will not be a collection, but…
Does not matter.
Just turn the first page and get started. While you are reading, I will get back to work on a new novel…”
— Max Kidruk.
Year: 2019
Number of pages: 304
Print run: 13 000
Genre: collection of stories
