Black Sun

Призрачный Сервер #3

by Andrei Livadny

Zander und seine Freunde stellen sich furchtlos der Gefahr, denn ein sicherer Respawn-Punkt verheißt Hoffnung. Nichts und niemand kann ihnen schaden oder sie vernichten. Schließlich ist alles nur ein Spiel – oder?

Ein Spiel, bei dem sich die Protagonisten in einem uralten Hyperraumnetz bewegen und auf die unterschiedlichsten außerirdischen Zivilisationen treffen. Ein Spiel, wie es realistischer nicht sein könnte. Die Erde ist menschenleer. Das Schicksal der Menschheit ist unbekannt.

Unsere Helden sitzen im Darg-Sternensystem fest. Jetzt geht es ums Überleben. Sie müssen den Phantom-Server finden, das Zentrum des interstellaren Netzes, das die uralte Zivilisation der Gründer geschaffen hat. Wenn sie leben wollen, müssen sie das Geheimnis entschlüsseln – oder dabei sterben.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Audiobook, Space Opera, Artificial Intelligence, Fantasy, Virtual Reality

263 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 10, 2016

About the author

Andrei Livadny is a popular Russian science fiction author. Born on May 27 1969 in the city of Pskov, he was an avid reader from an early age. But it was the Russian translation of Robert A. Heinlein's The Orphans of the Sky that decided his choice of future occupation. The story has become a pivotal moment in the boy's life, leaving a lasting impression on him.

Andrei wrote his first book at the age of eight. Since then, he's never stopped working on new books. His passion for science fiction has gradually become his career.

In 1998, Andrei debuted in Russia's leading publishing house EKSMO with his novella The Island of Hope. Since then, he has penned over 90 books that have enjoyed a total of 153 editions.

Andrei has created several unique worlds, each unlike the previous. He wrote A History of Our Galaxy with humanity itself as a protagonist. This sixty-book series creates a history of our future civilization and its contacts with alien races, forming a convincing and logical picture of humanity's development for two millennia from now.

Andrei's recent involvement with the bestselling genre of LitRPG - books set in online roleplaying games - inspired him to create his most intriguing series to date, Phantom Server. Merging virtual reality with hard science fiction and space exploration, the two first books of the series, Edge of Reality (Phantom Server Book #1) and The Outlaw (Phantom Server Book #2) are now available on Amazon, prompting a reviewer to call Andrei "one of the best new authors in American Sci Fi translated from Russian".

Besides hard science fiction, Andrei Livadny also works in cyberpunk genres which allow him to focus on human relationships and raise questions about artificial intelligence and identity uploading, describing cyberspace as humanity's future environment.

The English translation of A History of Our Galaxy will be available shortly. Check the author's Russian-language site for updates.

Reviews

[Aaron Nagy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid end to the Trilogy, and I highly recommend this series overall. I was tempted to give this a 5 star just because I really do love this series, but the book fell a bit short in general the main issue with this book was it felt like it got edited down too much like it was missing 20-30k words just thoughout the book. But for fans of non-stop action hard sci-fi this is a must buy series.

[Michael Sanchez · Rating 2 out of 5]

The plot got very muddled and felt like the author kept having ideas and adding them, it ended pretty well but for a good chunk of the middle of the book I was only listening because I'd read the previous 2 books and didn't want to not finish.

[Rudolf · Rating 5 out of 5]

заполанили нанароботы

[Lagarto · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume continues seamlessly where volume 2 leaves off. The entire series could have been released as one large book, but well, the author and publisher make more money splitting it up apparently. Oh well, it's still worth it.

Preventing me from granting 5 stars is not the quality of the material, so much as the breadth. The scenes are a little bit overlong, with fewer new venues being explored. That said, the action is fantastic and vibrantly described. It's not a universe I'd want to find myself in, but is fabulous to read about.

The conclusion felt a bit rushed, but otherwise was satisfying.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's been some time since I read the other books in this series, but after picking up this book, Ihave to wonder why I waited so long to drop this one into my current reading shelf. Fun stuff, and although it's not really resolved by the end, it certainly looks like it might be interesting material in the next book in the series, so I'll not be waiting so long before I get to the next one I think.

[Damien K · Rating 2 out of 5]

Melodrama out the wazoo!

Despite the complaint in my title, I would have enjoyed the book more if the writing were consistent; the quality of the translation goes down the further you get into the story.

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Васил Тодоров · Rating 4 out of 5]

a bit meta but cool

[Александр · Rating 5 out of 5]

Одна из лучших серий книг на геймерскую тематику. Нет кучи скучных ностальгических подробностей как в Ready Player One.
Только экшн, прокачка персов и остальные аттрибуты RPG

[Magila · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Paul F. Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great ending

Fantastic read! Great ending! Everything wrapped up nicely. I enjoyed this trilogy so much I will now be reading the prequel trilogy.

[Kristoffer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was great. There was an inconsistency in the story between this and the other series, The Neuro, that takes place in the same universe. I would have knocked a star off from this book for that because it annoyed me, but this book was written first and so is not the book at fault. The inconsistency is that The Neuro series explained the reapers as having been created by the first test subject of the neuro implant, who was a prisoner full of hate. This book explained the reapers as having been created by a hybrid character from the phantom server despite the reapers not invading the phantom server until way after they totally messed up the Crystal Sphere first. There was nothing to suggest that the prisoner and the hybrid were the same person or that the prisoner was one of the people whose neurograms were used to create the hybrid. Perhaps Andrei Livadny can create another series of books that focuses on the company and the testing grounds, explaining away the inconsistency in a way that makes sense. He did write a short story about that prisoner's experience testing the first neuro implant, so that story could even be worked into the main story as material to start with. Irregardless of the inconsistency that annoyed me, the book was great and definitely worth reading.

[Rodger Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this series. Kind of wished that there was a sequel that discusses Zanders adventures. Also would love to see what would happen to the Reapers. This series is quite different from other LitRPG books.