It's Too Late to Be Afraid

Shamil Idiatullin is a novelist, journalist, and a two-time winner of the "Big Book" prize. Author of the realistic novels "City of Brezhnev" and "Former Lenin", the mystical thriller "Ubyr", the spy novel "For the Elder", and the criminal novel "Until February", the ethnofantasy "Last Days", as well as science fiction - the novel "Return of the 'Pioneer'" and the collection "Just Like People". January 2024. Young guys arrive at a snow-covered tourist base to have fun, flirt, and - play a new computer game. Everything starts easily and simply, but the game turns out to be more than just a game: it is impossible to escape from the constantly changing reality, and the boundary between life and death blurs. - If they are not real, then we are not either. - They killed us, - Alina reminded. - They killed us, - Alice said. - If we kill, how are we better than them? - We are not better, - Mark grumbled. - We want to live. - Everyone wants to, not everyone can, - Alina cut in. Karim said: - Al, can we die? Won't we let you down too much? - I can handle it, - Alya said, shivering. - But this is the last time. "The fantastic detective story 'It's Too Late to Be Afraid' turned out to be more complex, harsher, and even more ruthless than I expected," Shamil Idiatullin