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New book series, “Mirror”: what would it be?

Almost all in one voice told that the book business in Russia in deep crisis. Circulations are falling, the writers are leaving the profession, publish God knows who… Yes, not everything went smoothly in our literary Kingdom, but it does not prevent to appear interesting projects. One of them is the series “Mirror” from “Eksmo” and “AST”. The founders of the series – writer Mike Helprin and editor Lyudmila Demina.

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“Mirror” – a line of author’s collections, where, under one cover will combine a man and a woman. Two authors, two approaches, a set of paired stories, echoing each other thematically or ideologically. Works will be grouped so that as vividly as possible to reflect the male and female points of view on the same problem.

The concept is very interesting, but more interesting is the authors that will be presented in the series. Last year Helprin wrote an article in which a number of signs brought together a group of excellent storytellers in “foam wave” – similar to the “color wave” of science fiction or “dark wave” Russian horror. We will not go into details, who are interested to read the material here. We note only that among the “foam” of the authors of many of those who are well familiar to domestic fans of dark fiction. A series of “Mirror” is the first major publication the authors of “foamy waves”.

Opens the series collection of Helprin and Olga Reyn is the winner of the last “Baker’s dozen”. Both authors have made a name for himself primarily in the sci-Fi crowd, but in recent years actively shifted to the dark genre. If you read the latest anthology from the series “the worst book”, perfectly familiar with the works Helprin and rain. Their collection is called “Mirror for heroes”, coming in April of this year. I mean, already here-here.

Publishing abstract:

The first collection of the series “the Mirror”, the unusual, the likes of which have not yet been. And this collection is also unusual. He’s got a double bottom, and underneath the starry sky. In this thirteen constellations of the zodiac and thirteen pairs of fantasy stories, and one of each pair written in a male hand, while the other is female. The authors look at each other and the world, reflected in his mirrors.
In the stories of this book raging storms, the sky has a bright alien light, winged men dive under clouds, lost in their wars, and rushes through the valley of the shadow of death a brave girl on a motorcycle “Ural”. The sun rises and sets, the Earth revolves around its axis and flies into unspeakable, unfathomable space, the year moves from Aries to Pisces, to immediately close the circle and start again.
Would you special stories of your zodiac sign, whether you see them reflected?

Already announced the next books in the series. And here, again, regular readers of the domestic dark prose will meet familiar names. The second collection – “beyond reflections” – will make up stories Marina Yasinskaya (winner of many literary competitions) and Andrew Carolina, whose debut novel “Northern portion” was released last year (author of, among other things, were noted in the anthology “Dark”, and the DARKER). Well, then comes the turn of “the Mirror maze”. The third volume will present Sophia Roldugin and Alexander Matyukhin, one of the most prominent Russian authors of modern horror.

All three books should be published before the summer, all three books are a variety of genres and themes – of course, there was a place and the horror. And the creators of the series have plans for its development. New authors, new stories, new reflections. The first step is taken, soon players will start to go on sale. And then the reader to decide. It will demand – will the new book. Will poor sales – the series will die. All works very simply. So if you like undertaking, if not indifferent to the fate of authors and books, support new series. She deserves it.

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