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  • MediaDB / «Map of the World" by Ilya Nosyrev: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2006 / What time is it? The laws of physics have been abolished, and instead the laws of magic apply on Earth. Just by looking at the calendar, you can understand: this is already the thirtieth century... Men are burning witches who stay up late at night on the Internet. Poets compare their mental anguish to errors on a hard drive. The esthete Marquis, a great admirer of de Sade, turns into an anatomically disgusting monster at night and devastates his own village. The living dead are waging a class struggle, and the government calls for treating the undead as politically correct as possible! Knight Ronald and the monk Yehuda, nicknamed the Blind Man for his gift of thermal vision, must wade through the fantasy absurdity, which turns out to be... the absurdity of modern life. “We can’t understand these people: they thought in the limited categories of their cruel 21st century,” sighs the monk. “Alice in Wonderland,” written by a historian, is scary... and terribly comical.