Getting Ahead of the Game

7 hrs. 58 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexey Gubarev

Narrator Petrov Nikita (petronik)

“Playing Ahead” is a science-fiction novel by Aleksei Gubarev, the second book in the cycle “On the Edge of Luck.” Action sci-fi, space fantasy, and “popadantsy.”

The triumphant return of the winner from the Arena—an amphitheater planet where the fates of worlds are decided—ends in completely unexpected fashion. Instead of his home, Fyodor ends up in a cell and is accused of double murder. But politicians who play their own games don’t know whom they’ve decided to break. Only when our hero manages to deal with this problem does he learn that most of the population faces imminent death, and our planet has been assigned a terrible fate.

And now, in outer space, a cruiser from a vanished race races through space in search of sealed bases and secret caches, preparing to give a worthy fight to the slavers who intend to turn Earth into a field for growing drugs forbidden in the Alliance.

1. Survival Game (narrated by Petrov Nikita (petronik)) 2. Getting Ahead of the Game 3. All-In Game (narrated by Petrov Nikita (petronik)) 4. Team Play (narrated by Nikita Petrov) 5. On the Edge of Luck. Basov, Beyond the Horizon (narrated by Petrov Nikita (Petronik), Nikita Petrov)