Stories beyond the boundaries

Max Kidruk

Ukrainian writer, publisher and science communicator.

Creator of The Theory of Improbability on Ukrainian Radio, author of Where There Is No God, Don't Look Back and Stay Silent, Look into My Dreams, and the New Dark Ages science-fiction series.

15+books
5translation languages
500,000+copies sold

His books have been published in Ukrainian, Polish, German, Czech and Hungarian.

Max Kidruk

Author of the New Dark Ages series

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A month ago, a bloody uprising by the Mars-born upset the balance of power between the most influential Martian corporations, a balance that had ensured relative political stability in Newborn for decades. The Ukrainian Diaspora is also in trouble: Goran's mind has been irreversibly damaged, Tomuto needs a new leader, and ambition and buried grievances are driving Kamianka towards a split.

699 ₴
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Board game New Dark Ages: Colony board game

New Dark Ages.
Colony

An asymmetric strategy game about controlling characters, resources and territories, based on Max Kidruk's bestselling novel. The first Ukrainian game on this scale to be built entirely around a Ukrainian fictional universe.

Choose one of 12 factions, recruit familiar characters, engineers and soldiers from the book, and pursue your own secret strategy in an all-against-all struggle!

3290 ₴

New Dark Ages

A hyperrealistic science-fiction saga about the world in the 22nd century

Colony — Book 1
Book 1

Colony

Humanity on Earth has barely recovered from clodis, the disease behind the worst pandemic in half a century, when a new pathogen emerges that infects only pregnant women. A team of immunologists tries to understand what it is and whether its appearance is connected to neutrino bursts recorded around the planet.

2023year
928pages
82 000print run
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Book 2

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A month ago, a bloody uprising by the Mars-born upset the balance of power between the most influential Martian corporations, a balance that had ensured relative political stability in Newborn for decades. The Ukrainian Diaspora is also in trouble: Goran's mind has been irreversibly damaged, Tomuto needs a new leader, and ambition and buried grievances are driving Kamianka towards a split.

2026year
928pages
50 000print run
In progress
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Cover reveal — late 2028
Book 3

And Then Darkness Fell

The third book in the New Dark Ages science-fiction series. Currently being written, with publication planned for 2029. Follow the announcements to be the first to hear more.

2029year
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Book 4

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