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Der Orden des Weißen Feuers ist kein gewöhnlicher Fantasy-Roman. Es ist eine düstere, literarische Space Dark Opera über eine Welt, die sich nicht mehr durch Wahrheit erhält, sondern durch Angst, Kontrolle und heilige Auslöschung.

What happens after power ends —not with violence, but with paperwork? How to Be Nothing is a darkly comic procedural nightmare about disappearance in the modern age —where people are not destroyed, imprisoned, or silenced, but quietly reclassified. The Majestic Man was once dangerous. Charismatic. Excessive. A creature of appetite, confidence, and domination who believed freedom meant crossing lines and surviving the consequences. He lived loudly, burned bridges beautifully, and mistook impact for meaning. Now he is old. And worse —he is allowed to exist.

The Ethereal God is dead. But the world it ruled was never meant to survive without it. After the fall of the false divinity that controlled the Megacity, Aelit and her allies discover a truth far more dangerous than tyranny: freedom was never safe. The Dome is no longer a lie. The sky has opened. The stars are real.

The sky above Eterra was never real. For generations, the people of the city believed the Dome was their shield, their prison, and their proof that nothing existed beyond the world they had been allowed to see. But the lie is breaking. The false heavens are beginning to crack, ancient systems are stirring beneath the ruins, and something far older than the city itself has started to wake. Aelit survived the descent into the buried depths of Eterra, but survival has changed her.

Imagine that time is not a river. What if your life is not a moving line, but a complete shape. In The Volumetric Time Model, Ralph Clayton invites you to rethink time as physics already does, not as a ticking present that vanishes, but as a finite volume where past, present, and future coexist inside one globally consistent reality. From that viewpoint, the strange feeling that the future is already decided is not superstition, it is what it feels like to live inside a fixed structure while only receiving information a little at a time.

Please Remain Seated: This Will Only Take a Moment is a dark satirical novel about what happens after power stops shouting and starts waiting. The world is not ending loudly. It is being corrected quietly.

Was bleibt von einem Volk, wenn alles, was es schön machte, es zugleich verwundbar machte? Thalerys, die Blaue Mutterwelt, ist gefallen. Unter schwarzen Schiffen, die nicht erobern, sondern Welten ernten, fliehen die letzten Überlebenden ins Exil. Von ihrer Heimat bleiben ihnen nur Fragmente: Erinnerung, Schuld, Trauer, ein paar gerettete Kinder – und die Hoffnung auf einen Neubeginn. Diese Hoffnung trägt einen Namen: Eterra. Fernab der vernichteten Mutterwelt liegt ein stiller, unerweckter Planet, roh, fremd und voller verborgener Tiefe.

Set against the collapse and aftermath of post-Soviet life, the book follows a boy taken from a forgotten Siberian village and carried—politely, efficiently—into a world that will rename him, repurpose him, and decide his value without ever raising its voice. There are no heroes here, no redemption arcs, no lessons offered at a safe distance. What unfolds instead is a careful study of how people survive when survival itself becomes useful to others. Violence appears rarely, and never as release. Care arrives disguised as containment. Stability is presented as generosity.

The Imaginary Pot of Vodka Gold is a cyclical anti-hero narrative about desire, stability, rupture, and repetition. A man believes he has reached the bottom of his life, only to discover that "bottom" is a comforting myth—an idea sold to make endurance feel meaningful. What actually exists is pattern: motion without resolution, survival without victory, and the quiet continuation of appetite long after the story is supposed to end.

This is my life, one mistake at a time. Worker-bee goes to work, sip coffee, step forward, one, two, three. I'm a brainless zombie with no purpose in life. Feed me brains and I'll eat 'em raw with some Tabasco. Worst mistake in my life, getting married to the perfect Russian princess. Her beautiful face hides treacherous intent. She'll suck you dry like a lemon until you have no juice left. Out of life, out of money, out of any hopes and dreams. This is your life, suck it up and don't complain.

Some men inherit power. Others inherit the damage. The Children of Kings is the second book in The Temporary Arrangements Series, a dark, unsentimental novel about how men are shaped, renamed, and repurposed inside systems that no longer need to announce themselves with violence.

The system doesn’t crush you. It schedules you. Power no longer announces itself with threats or violence. It arrives quietly, disguised as access. Permissions expand. Dashboards open. Decisions accelerate. Nothing is taken—everything is reclassified.

Maksim Max Orlov is not living, he is staying eligible to be billed again. He wakes up with a mouth tasting of metal and a phone bleeding failed payment notifications. Somewhere between towering ambition and crippling laziness, Max has mastered a new survival skill, he can turn his own collapse into a joke before anyone else can name it. A chaos man with a talent for punchlines, and a hollow hunger for validation.

Tales from the Motherland: Book Zero is a darkly comic collection of interlinked stories about power, memory, exile, and the quiet absurdities of modern life. Set across post-Soviet cities, imagined borderlands, and bureaucratic nowhere-zones, these stories follow people who live slightly out of sync with their surroundings—men and women shaped by collapse, reinvention, and systems that no longer announce themselves with force, but with procedure, habit, and polite indifference.

A Bed of Roses — Reloaded is not a dystopia and not a thriller—though it borrows the grammar of both. It is an audiobook about how modern power actually works: quietly, procedurally, without spectacle—and what happens when someone stops moving at the speed it expects.

🎙 The VTM PodcastWhat if the future isn’t approaching you… but already exists?The VTM Podcast explores the cutting edge of science, philosophy, and the architecture of tomorrow — from theoretical physics and complexity science to artificial intelligence, information theory, prediction, consciousness, and the Volumetric Time Model.This is a podcast for people who are not satisfied with simple answers. It is for listeners who look at reality and suspect there is something deeper beneath the surface: a hidden structure, a larger pattern, a geometry behind events that we only partially ...

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This is the life of several different characters that live and die in Mother Russia. This is their story and how it all ends and begins at the same time. The Majestic Man is the magical spark that joins them all, together as one, separated as none. The story of the great anti-hero and how it all began in The Motherland. In a basement, Mr. Pickles is struggling, his friends are slowly fading away into oblivion. Rufus the Thug is driving a black Mercedes, he's driving Construct Karl to the airport.

This is me in all my glorious and pathetic splendor, I'm the result of treacherous fate. This life is something that I could have never guessed. A choice that I would never have made, a shotgun-suicide that I would have never committed. Who would ever choose to become a brainless zombie begging for brains? No one in their right mind would do such a despicable thing. Boring sheep! All of them, I say. Quite unfortunately for me I'm not just anyone.

Welcome to my life, the online WebStar and adult performer. The world has never seen anyone else like me before. Born as a nobody in a forgotten village in the middle of nowhere, I was able to choke destiny with my very own two hands. I rose from the ashes of the old to become who I am now, your one and only eternal goddess. This is me, your delightful purple candy. Take my invitation and I shall make you free in my own Mesopotamian paradise. It's so devilish good, you'll never want to go back. Lose yourself in me.