Competitors

9 hrs. 54 min.

Language Russian

Author Sergey Lukyanenko

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

Sergey Lukyanenko’s novel “Competitors” is a true creative experiment. This time the author based the narrative not on everyday realities around us, but on the cosmic online game “Starquake.”

In the modern world, computer games sometimes replace life for people. But what if life suddenly turns into a computer game? And what if one thing can’t be separated from the other?

The hero of Sergey Lukyanenko’s new novel—journalist Valentin Safonov—knows the answer. You have to accept the rules of the game and not give up.

One day, carried away by impulse, he tears down a strange advertisement inviting him to become a pilot of a space fighter. Out of curiosity he goes to the office of the company “Star Hour,” and until the very last moment—having agreed to everything—he still doesn’t believe what’s happening. And he’s wrong. Because now there will be two of him: one Valentin will go into the universe of the computer online game, heading toward flights, battles, and adventures, while the other remains on Earth—to play the same game.

Lukyanenko defined the genre of his new book as “space opera.” He admits that he has long wanted to write something like this.