Alexander Zorich

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Alexander Zorich is a pseudonim of the duet of two Russian writers: Yana Botsman and Dmitry Gordevsky. Genres of their activity: SF, fantasy, alternate history, PC games scenarios. The duet writes in Russian.

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[edit] Yana Botsman

Was born in August 7 of 1973. Master's degree in applied mathematics, Ph.D. in philosophy (1999, thesis on philosophy of Buddhism). Until 2004 worked as assistant professor in Kharkov State University (Philosophical Faculty). Married. Since September 2004 – full-time writer and scenarist.

[edit] Dmitry Gordevsky

Was born in March 21 of 1973. Master's degree in mathematics, Ph.D. in philosophy (2000, thesis on philosophy of medieval heresies). Until 2004 worked as assistant professor in Kharkov State University (Philosophical Faculty). Unmarried. Since September 2004 – full-time writer and scenarist.

[edit] Facts

As Alexander Zorich, Yana Botsman and Dmitry Gordevsky are authors of 18 novels, and they are very popular in Russia.

Yana and Dmitry drive a quill together since 1991, when they both were first-year university students. Today Alexander Zorich is "the most venerable among young writers or maybe the youngest among venerable Russian writers" (Nasha Fantastika Magazine).

The first book by Alexander Zorich has never been published.

"It was a huge, about 150 pages, epic poem about fantasy world of Sarmontazara. And we worked on it for about two years. From our present-day point of view, it is absolutely terrible. But back then we both were confident, that it is much more ingenious than all the Shakespeare's writings. Readers often ask us, when will we publish it. The only answer we can give is "Never!" (from an interview to "Zerkalo Nedeli" weekly).

The first published book by Alexander Zorich "The Sign of Destruction" was published in 1997 and rapidly gained popularity among the worshippers of the fantasy worlds. During the next five years Alexander Zorich has more than once astonished his readers with new writings. A historic novel "Charles the Duke" dedicated to Charles the Bold, last Duke of Burgundy, conquered the title "The Best Russian Fiction of a 2001 Year" by "Ex-Libris" book review (Moscow). Over the years Alexander Zorich has published lots of verses and short stories in small literature magazines. The first large novel by Alexander Zorich saw the light of the day in 1997. Since then Zorich wrote 7 fantasy novels ("The Sign of Destruction", "The Seed of Wind", "The Ways of Starborned", "Love and Rule", "You Win", "The Combat Vehicle of Love", "The Light of Nighttime"), one cyberpunk novel ("The Season of Weapon"), the book in the genre of alternate history and its sequel ("Charles the Duke", "The First Sword of Burgundy"), 4 "classic" science fiction novels ("The Consul of Commonwealth" and "Tomorrow War" trilogy), 2 fairy tales ("Denis Kotik" 2 related books), one stories collector ("Nothing Sacred") and one "cryptohistory" novel ("Roman Star") dedicated to Publius Ovidius Naso.

In fact the only fiction genre Alexander Zorich has never worked in is the horror genre.

"Tomorrow War" trilogy – "Tomorrow War", "With No Mercy", "Moscow Time" – brought to Zorich the biggest success in his writers' biography and became a standard of modern Russian space opera. The books of Alexander Zorich are being published by the largest publishing houses of Russia, among them EKSMO and AST (Moscow), Tsenterpolygraph (Moscow), Severo-Zapad (Saint-Petersburg). Alexander Zorich actively cooperates with the leading Russian fantasy & SF magazines: "Mir Fantastiki" ("The World of SF&F), "Esli" ("If"), "Polden" ("Noon"), "Zvezdnaya Doroga" ("Star Trek"), "Nasha Fantastika" ("Our Fiction"), etc.

Several novels and stories by Alexander Zorich are translated into Ukrainian and Polish.

[edit] Books

  • «The Ways of Starborned» trilogy (Fantasy. Editions: 1997—1998, EKSMO; 2001 Tsenterpolygraph; 2006 AST-press)
  1. The Sign of Destruction
  2. The Seed of Wind
  3. The Ways of Starborned
  • «The Vault of Equilibrium» tetralogy (Fantasy. Editions: 1998, EKSMO — vol.1; 2000—2001 Tsenterpolygraph; 2006 AST-пресс)
  1. Love and Rule
  2. You Win
  3. The Combat Vehicle of Love
  4. The Light of Nighttime
  1. Charles the Duke
  2. The First Sword of Burgundy
  • «Consul of Commowealth» novel (SF. Editions: 2002 Tsenterpolygraph; 2007 AST-press)
  • «Tomorrow war» trilogy (SF. Editions: 2003—2006 AST-press)
  1. Tomorrow war
  2. With No Mercy
  3. Moscow Time
  1. Denis Kotik and Queen of Winged Horses
  2. Denis Kotik and Pale Knights Order

[edit] PC Games scenarios

  • «Soldiers: Heroes of World War II» – Russian title "V tilu vraga" (RTS dedicated World War II. Studio: Best Way, Ukraine, Severodonetsk. Release: 2004; Russian publisher 1C, international publisher Codemasters)
  • «Faces of War» – Russian title "V tilu vraga 2" (RTS dedicated World War II. Studio: Best Way, Ukraine, Severodonetsk. Release: 2006; Russian publisher 1C, international publisher Ubisoft)
  • «Tomorrow war» – Russian title "Zavtra voina" (Space simulator dedicated space warfare at 27th century. Studio: Crioland, Russia, Novosibisrk. Release: 2006; Russian publisher 1C, international publisher Atari)
  • «Tomorrow war: K Factor» – Russian title "Zavtra voina: Faktor K" (Space simulator dedicated space warfare at 27th century. Studio: Crioland, Russia, Novosibisrk. Release: 2007; Russian publisher 1C, international publisher Atari (?))
  • «The Vault of Equilibrium: Beltion» – Russian title "Svod Ravnovesiya: Beltion" (RPG dedicated magic inquisition of Varan Republic. Studio: Rostok-Games, Ukraine, Kiev. Release: the end of 2007; Russian publisher Novij Disk)

[edit] Notice

  1. «Tomorrow war»/«Tomorrow war: K Factor» games based on Alexander Zorich space opera trilogy with the same name.
  2. «The Vault: Beltion Project» based on Alexander Zorich fantasy tetralogy «The Vault of Equilibrium».

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