“The Art of Blowing Up” is a fantastic novel by Anton Emelyanov and Sergey Savinov, the first book of the eponymous cycle, genre: transmigration, bojarъ-anime, urban fantasy. It’s a world where high politics is handled by aristocrats, where superheroines serve corporate trading giants, and at night street gangs appear—masked and carrying techno-artifacts. This is a story about a guy who got into another world and became a hero-artifactmaker. Only his power isn’t about creating cool things that local aristocrats and beauties will go crazy over. The only thing he does really well is breaking what others have made. Ideally—blowing it up. Then again, maybe the empire simply needed exactly that to start a new march in the field of Darkness.