History Creator / MikhailAkhmanov

Creator/MikhailAkhmanov (Михаил Ахманов) is the pen name of Mikhail Nahmanson (b. May 29, 1945), 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.

** ''Fighters of Danveyt'' takes place after the end of the devastating, long wars with the Faata, resulting in a stalemate. Most of ships of the mighty Earth fleet are mothballed. The veterans can finally return home. But many instead choose to use their skills earned during the wars and sign up as mercenaries to the mysterious Lo'ona Aeo, a race who no human has ever seen. The mercenaries are tasked with defending Lo'ona Aeo sectors from [[LizardFolk Dromi]] pirate raids. Sergey Valdez is one of the mercenaries and is the captain of a small three-man patrol ship called the ''Lancelot''. While answering a distress call from a Lo'ona Aeo freighter, the ''Lancelot'' crew fights off a Dromi raiding party to discover that the freighter carries a living Lo'ona Aeo, who are so xenophobic they can't stand to be in the same room as an alien. However, the beautiful alien female makes an exception for Sergey, not only as gratitude for the rescue but because she senses something different about him, namely his not-quite-human ancestry. After all, he is descended from Commodore Paul Richard Corcoran.

** ''The Mercenary''. Alexey Kargin has served in the Spetsnaz and the French Foreign Legion. He is the best in his field. Now he finds himself as a bodyguard of the elderly Patrick Halloran, the head of a powerful weapons manufacturing company. Halloran's private island in the Pacific is a paradise. However, Halloran's name is connected to a secret going back to WorldWarTwo. In order to protect himself and those who trust him, Alexey has to uncover this secret.

* ''Kononov the Barbarian'' (2003). Kim Kononov is the writer of yet another sequel to ''ConanTheBarbarian''. He is slowly beginning to lose touch with reality, and starts to see the world through the eyes of his almost-namesake and performing actions worthy of the fierce Cimmerian. And when the author's brain becomes a home to an intergalactic traveler named Trixy, granting his host nigh-unlimited physical abilities, one should pity the enemies of the timid writer.

* ''Klim I'' series (2014).
** ''Klim I, Dragonslayer''. Klim Skuratov, a spetsnaz major, is transported to a magical reality where he becomes the autocratic ruler of a kingdom called [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Hai Boria]]. An attractive position for a man without a family, a home, who makes a pittance and lives in officer dorms. But there's no such thing as a free lunch. The kingdom has plenty of problems: the treasury is empty, the dwarves aren't paying tribute, the elves aren't lending money, a goblin army is at the border, and those dragons are breeding like rabbits. But Klim is used to rising to the challenge and is determined to solve all these problems.

MikhailAkhmanov (Михаил Ахманов) is the pen name of Mikhail Nahmanson (b. May 29, 1945), 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.

** ''First after God''. Two hundred years have passed since the first recorded messages from space. Few of the strange visions have been decyphered, as humanity simply lacked sufficient knowledge to do that. Finally, a newly-discovered alien race helps humanity discover the details of the adventures of an English captain named Peter Shelton. The brave adventurer had fought the Spaniards and the pirates of the Caribbean, crossed the South American jungles to reach the Incan treasures. But what to a 17th century sailor would be just gold and gems, to the scientists of the 23rd century, it was a treasure of a different kind.

* ''Trevelyan's Mission'' (2005-2013) takes place in the same universe as ''Arrivals from the Dark'', about 500 years after ''The Gates of the Galaxy''. Unlike the other series, this one is not a space opera and is more focused on exploring various alien cultures and solving mysteries. The protagonist of all four novels is Ivar Trevelyan, a researcher specializing in pre-Renaissance humanoid cultures.

* ''Deathworld 7: Enemies in Reason'' (2001). The latest sequel to the ''Literature/{{Deathworld}}'' series by HarryHarrison (whether or not the latter had any input is debatable). The envoys of the powerful Roog civilization got extremely lucky, when they accidentally abduct Jason [=dinAlt=] out of all the Pyrrhans for study. After all, he's the only inhabitant of Deathworld who would get it into his head to try to convince his captors that trade is better than war. Considering that the original target of the Roogs was Kerk Pyrrhus...

** ''The Filibusterer: Maghreb'' (originally, ''The Raven''). After many adventures, Andrey has become the captain of the pirate frigate ''Raven'' under the name Marquis André de Serra. However, neither the glitter of gold, nor the adrenalyn-filled raids and boarding actions have added meaning to his life. He wants to take his frigate to Russia to serve PeterTheGreat, who is in dire need of able seamen in his war with the Swedes. However, the journey from the Caribbean to the Baltics is not an easy one. However, after a storm and an attack by the Maghreb pirates, Andrey has to delay his journey north indefinitely, as the raiders have captured many of his friends, as well as his wife.

** ''Klim I, Dragonfighter''. Klim Skuratov, a spetsnaz major, is transported to a magical reality where he becomes the autocratic ruler of a kingdom called [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Hai Boria]]. An attractive position for a man without a family, a home, who makes a pittance and lives in officer dorms. But there's no such thing as a free lunch. The kingdom has plenty of problems: the treasury is empty, the dwarves aren't paying tribute, the elves aren't lending money, a goblin army is at the border, and those dragons are breeding like rabbits. But Klim is used to rising to the challenge and is determined to solve all these problems.

* ''The Masseur'' (2011). The Masseur, knowing the secrets of Tibetan medicine, leads a double life. By day, he is a unique healer. By night, he is a coldblooded, merciless criminal. The only way to destroy the killer Masseur lies outside the law and beyond usual methods.

* ''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.

* ''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 {{Solaris}}), and an appendix at the end of the book notes all the references for those who missed them.

* ''Trevelyan's Mission'' (2005-2007) takes place in the same universe as ''Arrivals from the Dark'', about 500 years after ''The Gates of the Galaxy''. Unlike the other series, this one is not a space opera and is more focused on exploring various alien cultures and solving mysteries. The protagonist of all four novels is Ivar Trevelyan, a researcher specializing in pre-Renaissance humanoid cultures.

* ''ArrivalsFromTheDark'' series (2005-2011) is a SpaceOpera notable for not having a single protagonist for all five books. Instead, the books follow members of a certain family who play key roles in shaping humanity's future in the galaxy through the centuries. There is, however, a secondary character who [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld appears in all five books]].

* ''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 Gates of the Galaxy'' continues the war with the Dromi, which has been going on for over 50 years. Human casulaties are in the millions. Finally, humanity gets a chance to end the war in one fell swoop by destroying the enemy's ruling clan. But that requires reaching the Dromi homeworld via the previously-unavailable interstellar tunnels of the [[{{Precursors}} Daskins]]. The strike force is headed by Commodore Olaf Peter Trevelyan-Krasnogortsev, a brave warrior known for his many victories. However, the strike force is joined by Mark Valdez, one of the twelve Arbiters of Justice, whose orders are to be followed by anyone from private to admiral.

MikhailAkhmanov (Михаил Ахманов) is the pen name of Mikhail Mahmanson (b. May 29, 1945), 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.

* ''ArrivalsFromTheDark'' series (2005-2009) is a SpaceOpera notable for not having a single protagonist for all five books. Instead, the books follow members of a certain family who play key roles in shaping humanity's future in the galaxy through the centuries. There is, however, a secondary character who [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld appears in all five books]].

** ''Good Will Mission'' has Eric Trevelyan being sent as part of an ambassadorial mission to the Haptors, who are still bitter about losing the war against the Earth Federation. After finding himself imprisoned, Eric realizes that his task is much more serious than simply establishing cultural and trade ties. The fates of humanity and its allies depends largely on Eric's force of will and bravery, as the Haptors are determined to find the Lords of Emptiness, spelling doom for the galactic races.

** ''The Missing Link''. On the way to the [[{{Understatement}} unpleasant]] planet Inferno to deal with the local [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] nomads, Ivar's ship receives a distress signal, and he discovers a rogue planet in deep space containing enormous danger as well as secrets to his own past.

* ''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.

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MikhailAkhmanov (Михаил Ахманов) is the pen name of Mikhail Mahmanson (b. May 29, 1945), a Russian science fiction writer with genres ranging from SpaceOpera (with a wide range on MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness) to AlternateHistory.