The Titanium Vine

The cold, damp morning of September 15, 2051...

Almost half a century has passed since the Second Chernobyl catastrophe. This time the blast happened in five places at once. From Sosnovy Bor near St. Petersburg to the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow; from the Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk to Kazantip. Simultaneous explosions of monstrous power marked the beginning of a nightmarish “Five-Zone” wasteland. It’s hard to imagine that anyone could survive there.

And yet people did survive. New stalkers faced not only mutants and anomalies, but also heartless creations of super-modern technology. Mechanohumanoids and staltechs, avtons and tumble-zones—these are the true inhabitants of the Wasteland. This world belongs to them, and without a fight they won’t give it up.

But desperate girl-stalker Darling—codename “Titanium Vine”—is not the kind to retreat from difficulties...