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Creator/MikhailAkhmanov (Михаил Ахманов) was the pen name of Mikhail Nahmanson (1945-2019), a Russian science fiction writer with genres ranging from SpaceOpera (with a wide range on MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness) to AlternateHistory. Many of his characters are modern-day people (usually soldiers) who somehow find themselves in a FishOutOfTemporalWater scenarios.
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Creator/MikhailAkhmanov (Михаил Ахманов) was the pen name of Mikhail Nahmanson (1945-2019), a Russian science fiction writer with genres ranging from SpaceOpera (with a wide range on MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness) to AlternateHistory. Many of his characters are modern-day people (usually soldiers) who somehow find themselves in a FishOutOfTemporalWater scenarios.
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* ''[[Literature/CaptainFrenchOrTheQuestForParadise Captain French, or the Quest for Paradise]]'' (1998; co-authored by Christopher Nicholas Gilmore). While the description of the book claims it's a SpaceOpera, the novel actually lacks certain things one would associate with the genre, not the least one being {{Space Battle}}s. The authors try to be on the harder side of MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness in this novel, despite the presence of interstellar travel. While spacecraft do indeed perform near-instantaneous jumps to other systems, it is most definitely not FasterThanLightTravel, as relativistic effects are present (the jump lasts decades, if not centuries for those planet-bound) and the main effect is key to the story. There is no [[TheFederation Federation]] or an [[TheEmpire Empire]], as the nature of interstellar travel means any sort of interstellar government is impossible. Space travel is a rarity and only done by colonists and space traders, of which the titular protagonist is one. He is the first of only a few hundred space traders and is also the oldest man in the galaxy (he's actually ''only'' 2000, but constant jumps mean he was born 20,000 years ago, Earth time). Breakthroughs in medicine have resulted in a treatment that stops aging in its tracks and is available to most. Much of the book is devoted to expositions either through internal monologues by the protagonist or as conversations with others, especially his new wife. No matter how many planets humans settle, we will never change our ways and are condemned to repeat the same mistakes over and over. The novel pays homage to many great sci-fi novels of the 20th century (e.g. one of the planet visited is a [[SingleBiomePlanet water world]] named Literature/{{Solaris}}), and an appendix at the end of the book notes all the references for those who missed them.
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* ''[[Literature/CaptainFrenchOrTheQuestForParadise Captain French, or the Quest for Paradise]]'' (1998; co-authored by Christopher Nicholas Gilmore). While the description of the book claims it's a SpaceOpera, the novel actually lacks certain things one would associate with the genre, not the least one being {{Space Battle}}s. The authors try to be on the harder side of MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness science fiction in this novel, despite the presence of interstellar travel. While spacecraft do indeed perform near-instantaneous jumps to other systems, it is most definitely not FasterThanLightTravel, as relativistic effects are present (the jump lasts decades, if not centuries for those planet-bound) and the main effect is key to the story. There is no [[TheFederation Federation]] or an [[TheEmpire Empire]], as the nature of interstellar travel means any sort of interstellar government is impossible. Space travel is a rarity and only done by colonists and space traders, of which the titular protagonist is one. He is the first of only a few hundred space traders and is also the oldest man in the galaxy (he's actually ''only'' 2000, but constant jumps mean he was born 20,000 years ago, Earth time). Breakthroughs in medicine have resulted in a treatment that stops aging in its tracks and is available to most. Much of the book is devoted to expositions either through internal monologues by the protagonist or as conversations with others, especially his new wife. No matter how many planets humans settle, we will never change our ways and are condemned to repeat the same mistakes over and over. The novel pays homage to many great sci-fi novels of the 20th century (e.g. one of the planet visited is a [[SingleBiomePlanet water world]] named Literature/{{Solaris}}), and an appendix at the end of the book notes all the references for those who missed them.
