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Roman Zlotnikov

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in Sarov, Russian Federation

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I spent twenty years as a military officer before I started writing. A colonel in the Russian Interior Forces, firearms instructor, combat psychology teacher — I didn't study war in libraries. I lived it.

When I finally picked up a pen, I wrote what I knew: men under impossible pressure, codes of honor tested by blood, and civilizations hanging by a thread. Sixty novels and over ten million copies later, I became Russia's bestselling military science fiction author.

My flagship series The Eternal follows an immortal warrior fighting a centuries-long war against alien invaders — with a sword, a code of honor, and the weight of humanity's survival on his shoulders. Fans of David Weber's Honor Harrington and Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Sag ...more

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	Swords Over the Stars: An Epic Military Space Opera: The Eternal Series, Book 1 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The war that wouldn't end

I started writing The Eternal because I couldn't answer a question.
Twenty years as a military officer will do something specific to you. Not the dramatic things — the adrenaline, the danger. Those pass. What stays is the weight of time. The understanding that the institution was there before you, will be there after you, and doesn't particularly care about your personal arc. You serve. You hand it Read more of this blog post »

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Published on March 28, 2026 16:39 • Tags: alien-invasion, civilization-at-war, david-weber, duty-and-honor, epic-sci-fi, honor-harrington, immortal-warriors, lois-mcmaster-bujold, military-science-fiction, military-sf, roman-zlotnikov, russian-author, russian-science-fiction, science-fiction, space-opera, swords-over-the-stars, the-eternal, the-eternal-series, translated-fiction, vorkosigan, war-fiction

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