Experiment. Book 1. The Lost World

The 22nd century: humanity wages the harshest struggle for survival. After the first contact in history with another civilization, Earth suffers three invasions from outside, losing up to ninety percent of its population. But the Solar System is not the only target of the automated ships of an unknown race—entire sectors are subjected to terror without any visible reason.

And now the moment has come when people have finally grown strong and are ready themselves to become predators. But after a tragic accident that destroys his dreams of a military career, a young engineer, Dmitry Voevodin, finds himself aboard the only scientific vessel, "Galileo. What could be more boring than escorting scientists? Instead of dangerous missions and heroic feats, he expected mundane scientific expeditions and dull flights deep into space…

But fate decides otherwise: the crew encounters a mysterious anomaly in hyperspace, where they discover a planet hidden from others’ eyes. Ruins hang in orbit around it, and the origin and purpose of the ruins would baffle even the most experienced scientists.

Yet not everything is so simple. A brief clash with the planet’s security systems ruins the expedition’s plans, and "Galileo" crashes. Dmitry finds himself at the center of events, where it depends not only on his survival, but also on the fate of those who live in this lost world—based on his engineering skills, courage, and ability to think outside the box. To survive, he must unravel the mystery of the enigmatic planet, which may hold traces of a long-vanished supercivilization.

A war of technologies and ancient knowledge, a struggle for survival, and searching for one’s place in a world where past and future intertwine in the most unexpected ways—Dmitry will face all this in this gripping story of adventures, discoveries, and the power of the human spirit. And who knows: perhaps humanity’s struggle for survival will not be hundreds of light years away, but right here—on this hyper-lost planet.