Operation Mars-2000

This book is the debut of Alexander Romanov—a fearless dreamer and magnificent storyteller—posing, like any science-fiction writer, global questions about the future of humankind and humanity’s place in the universe. “Phantasmagoria…” really is fairy tales of the third millennium: with evil wizards and werewolves, virtual worlds and Martian pyramids, ghosts and old castles, brave knights and wonderful princesses. True, everything is framed in a futuristic setting of starships, spaceports, and distant inhabited planets—but there’s nothing to be surprised about: the noon of the 21st century is approaching. The plots of A. Romanov’s science fiction are exciting, somewhat naive, and didactic without excess pathos. On timeless themes—struggle of good against evil, searching for one’s own “self,” or fighting the demons within himself—the author is not afraid to seem commonplace, inviting the intelligent and subtle reader on an entertaining journey through his fantastic worlds.