About the book: 2008 / Compiled by: Vasily Melnik The most incredible events take place on the pages of this book. A unit of American sabotage special forces confronts the unleashed forces of Darkness. A reconnaissance force of fearless Red Army soldiers from the revolutionary brigade named after Comrade Engels lands on the Mir space station. A virtual war game infiltrates reality, turning it into deadly madness. Interdimensional tramps are hunting dinosaurs with arquebuses, the Martians are going to establish regular supplies from Earth of an exquisite delicacy - human blood, hostile alien races are waging fierce wars on the streets of earthly cities, invisible to ordinary people. But even in settlements destroyed by terrible epidemics and social chaos, there are things worth living for. And in an ordinary Moscow park, if you really try, you can see a fairy-tale creature... These and many other amazing stories are told in the anthology of Russian science fiction writers “Russian Science Fiction-2008”. Contents: NARRATIVE by Yuri Nesterenko. Absolute weapon (story) Alexander Bachilo, Igor Tkachenko. Red Giant (story) Anton Orlov. The Last Portal (story) STORIESVasily Melnik. Master (story) Paul Gossen, Sergey Chekmaev. Militarists (story) Mikhail Klikin. All the essentials (story) Leonid Kudryavtsev, Dmitry Fedotov. The honest truth (story) Oleg Ovchinnikov. AI (story) Vasily Golovachev. No one above us (story) Evgeniy Garkushev. Mental liposuction (story) Yuri Nesterenko. War of the Worlds - XXI (story) Viktor Tochinov. Nostalgia (story) Russell D. Jones. An elephant was on its way to Moscow (story) Artyom Beloglazov. Do you want a flower? (story) Dmitry Kazakov. No options (story)