The Beginning

13 hrs. 49 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexey Kalugin

Narrator Nick White

Everyone expected something to happen in 2012. They laughed, teased, and told jokes about it.

But it didn’t blow up then—nor where anyone expected.

The world flipped in 2015.

The Season of Catastrophes began.

At first, everything seemed simple and clear: 2015, Earth enters the Season of Catastrophes, and to survive, humanity needs to understand how and why those or other global events happen. That’s why quest groups are sent into anomalous zones. Their primary task is to search for rifts in the spatio-temporal continuum and the related “packages”—artifacts that, according to the Center for Studying Catastrophes leadership, could become the key to many mysteries of the changing world.

In these zones, “our” side faces enemies called “the greys,” about whom even less is known than about the zones themselves—but who, just in case, should be destroyed as well. There’s also a whole swarm of unidentified unclean things and extremely harsh natural conditions. But that’s only at first. In reality, everything turns out much more complex and ambiguous. Physicist Osipov, biologist Orson, the fighters of the Kamokhin and Breigel group found that out in a frozen city—an anomaly that became the first in a long chain of special raids for their quest group, the first move in a strange Game in which they found themselves unwillingly—and without the right to quit…

1. The Beginning (narrated by Pozhiloy Ksenomorf) 1. The Beginning 2. The Web (narrated by Pozhiloy Ksenomorf) 2. The Web (narrated by Oleg Shubin) 3. The Golem (narrated by Pozhiloy Ksenomorf) 4. The Shaman (narrated by Pozhiloy Ksenomorf) 5. Control (narrated by Pozhiloy Ksenomorf)