Mihail Ahmanov

Mihail Ahmanov is a modern Russian science fiction writer, known in Russian-speaking countries for his hard sci-fi novels, owing to his background in physics. His real name is Mikhail Nakhmanson.

List of Works

  • [...] Simon series
    • Wind's Shadow - [...] Simon is one of the few humans to be trained by the four-armed natives of the heavy-g planet Tayahat. Coupled with his special agent training, he is sent on the most perilous missions across the galaxy: capture/kill escaped prisoners, kill a general leading a civil war, uncover the long-lost history of interstellar travel, etc.
    • Earth's Shadow - [...] Simon is sent on his most dangerous mission ever: he must travel to Earth and find out who and why closed the planet to all interstellar travel centuries prior and, if possible, reopen it.
  • Dwellers series
    • The Scythians Feast at Sunset
    • Stranger Coming From Afar
  • The Trailblazer series
    • Inhabited Area
    • The Libyan
  • The Rat Catcher series
    • The Rat Catcher
    • Jokes of a Wealthy Man
  • Kononov the Barbarian
  • Captain French, or Looking for Paradise - co-authored by Christopher Nicholas Gilmore. The novel describes the future roughly 20,000 years from now. By that time, humanity has spread throughout the galaxy and made great discoveries, allowing them to stop the aging process in its tracks. However, faster-than-light travel is not possible, and journeys between stars, while taking only seconds to the traveller, last decades if not centuries to those planet-bound. Thus, travelling between systems is a costly and risky business, performed only by colonists and space traders. Captain French was the first human to travel to another star. He also became the first space trader and retains a legendary status throughout human worlds. He has seen many things: empires rising and falling, entire planetary populations wiped out by war, comets, and misguided science. His life's quest, however, is to find that one perfect world to call his own Paradise.
  • Pharaoh's Guard
  • Filibusterer
  • Soldier of Fortune
  • I, Alien
  • The Exorcist of Genies
  • Arrivals from the Dark series - describes the future of humanity after a massive alien starship arrives to the Solar System with hostile intentions
    • Invasion
    • Retaliation
    • Fighters of Danveyt
    • Dark Skies - not yet published
    • Masters of Emptiness - not yet published

1 - a list of his books with brief plot summaries in Russian

2 - Short biography and bibliography of writer in English

See Also

Mikhail Akhmanov

Mikhail Akhmanov () is a modern Russian science fiction writer, known in Russian-speaking countries...