Atomic Heart. The Backstory of Enterprise 3826

The backstory of Atomic Heart — one of the most popular games of 2023.
The legendary "Enterprise 3826" — from the invention of polymer to the day of the launch of "Collective 2.0"!

Welcome to an alternate Soviet Union! In 1936, Professor Sechenov invented polymer — a unique information carrier of a new kind, requiring no digital codes or electrical signals. Further research allows for a number of brilliant discoveries and fantastically accelerates the development of robotics. "Enterprise 3826", a network of scientific and production complexes, begins its work under the guidance of the best minds of the USSR.
Scientific progress leads the country to an ideal future. But what will happen if technologies get out of human control?

Beware, spoilers!

About the author
Harald Horf, 37 years old, writer, linguistics teacher, cultural scientist. He was born in Abkhazia to a family of a doctor of historical sciences. He spent his childhood in Yerevan, the Shengavit district, where he moved with his family at the age of 4. At the age of 12, he became fascinated with Japanese culture. Later, at the age of 19, he became seriously interested in the history of Scandinavia after a trip to Norway with his father.
In his youth, he wrote science fiction stories, some of which were translated and published in Armenian, Japanese, Russian, and Norwegian.
A love for Soviet history and an obsession with computer games prompted Harald Horf to create his debut novel "Atomic Heart" inspired by the works of Artem Galeev in collaboration with the studio Mundfish.