Tupyen. Blood of the Arkhs

The first book in the “Tupen’” series. Adventure science fiction on the edge of a space action film and a story about a transmigrator.

The main hero is Anatoly Polyakov, the most ordinary man from Earth—suddenly torn from his familiar life and thrown into a reality of high technology, where intelligence is valued higher than any money. Can Polyakov, without outstanding knowledge, fit into a foreign universe and not get lost in its rules?

Vladimir Gennadievich Poselyagin is one of the most widely read Russian science-fiction authors, the creator of many cycles about transmigration and alternative history: “The Hunter,” “The Sniper,” “I Got Isekai’d,” “Rat,” and others. His novels are recognizable for their lively credibility, resourceful plot twists, vivid characters, and biting humor.

On simple Earth, in vast Russia, Anatoly Polyakov lived quietly—working, saving for life, and not expecting trouble. But fate decided otherwise: an ordinary road accident overturned everything—at a long-haul driver’s truck, the brakes failed.

A runaway American semi-truck, tearing away down a steep descent like a steel monster, cut short Tola’s life and sent his soul into a new birth.

So the hero vanished in one world and awakened in another—where technology rules, and space turns out to be closer than the next city. The dream of starships and interplanetary travel becomes real, but a harsh reality.

And the problem is that Tola isn’t a genius: his IQ is only sixty-one. Here, however, mind is the main currency—without it you won’t survive or rise. Still, it’s too early to count him out: he has plenty of life experience, and more than enough quick-wittedness. Our man knows how to break through and find his place—even if the sun above him shines somewhere in a far, faraway galaxy.