Evgeny Shchepetnov: biography, creativity and the best books

For most people on earth who want to distance themselves from the harsh truth of life for a while, reading fantasy novels is a real outlet. In them they can visit different planets, travel in time, teleport from one place to another, and also empathize with the heroes and together with them to save the world from another apocalypse. Similar stories, endowed with a special meaning, can be found in the works of such a science fiction writer as Eugene Shchepetnov.

Short biography of the writer: childhood and school years

Evgeny Vladimirovich is one of the most popular science fiction writers in Russia, creating novels in the fantasy style. This talented author was born in the Orenburg region in the family of geologists in 1961. Since childhood, young talent liked to fantasize and invent various mythical characters. He often played with other children, involving them in his own fairy world, where wizards and monks, kings and queens ruled, dragons flew, and brave knights fought for the hand of the lady of the heart.

At school Shchepetnov Eugene Vladimirovich did not differ much in anything. His fellow practitioners spoke of him as a well-mannered, sociable and moderately shy boy. He read a lot and preferred more the humanities, leaving in the background math, physics, geometry and chemistry. Despite this, the young writer was always open to comprehending everything new and interesting.

Moving and studying in universities

When Yevgeny was 14 years old, his parents decided to move to the city of Saratov. First, the future writer decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents and become a geologist. It was for this purpose that he passed the exams and entered the Saratov Geological Prospecting Technical School.

Eugene Vladimirovich Shchepetnov graduated from it in the beginning of 1980. From this moment on the fantast became interested in travel. He continued to read and raise his initial level of erudition. However, he still lacked something, and what he will understand later.

Practice, work and change of interests

The craving for adventures of the author was manifested during his practice and work in the Tien Shan in Kyrgyzstan, where he came by distribution. It was there that he felt all the complexity and at the same time the "charm" of the work of the geologist. There, for the first time, the writer managed to feel like a real treasure hunter, as his actions were directly related to the search for gold deposits.

In his beloved Saratov, Yevgeny Schepetnov returned only a year later. There he was waiting for a new vacancy, which opens up great prospects in the oil refining industry.

Taking advantage of a tempting and profitable proposal, the fiction writer stayed on the oil field, where he worked until mid-1987. At the end of the same year, the writer was waiting for a second unexpected proposal. On the horizon loomed not too significant, but still, the post of police officer. She also opened the way for the curious writer to an unknown and mysterious world, which could be seen only through the eyes of a representative of the law. There he managed to work until the end of 1992.

Further education and career

Since Evgeny Shchepetnov was a fully developed personality, he was always serious about education. After graduating from the technical school and practicing the science fiction, he decided to get a higher education and entered Saratov State University, where he studied as an engineer and as an oil geologist until 1992.

Having received a diploma of a specialist, the author took up business and tried to maximally develop as a private entrepreneur. However, even at that moment Evgeni felt a kind of emptiness, which he had absolutely nothing to fill.

The creative way of Shchepetnov

Feeling a kind of vacuum in his own achievements, Yevgeny Schepetnov started writing fantastic stories. His first steps in creativity, he began in 2011. And - about a miracle! This is what the writer's life lacked. In his own words, writing fantasy novels has become his best hobby.

Exactly one year later he managed to publish several chapters of one of his first books on the website "Samizdat". And it raced. The ideas of writing novels fell like a horn of plenty.

At the moment, the writer has already written and published over 30 books, and also there are ready sketches of new ones waiting for their hour. From that moment Evgeny Schepetnov got his fame. All the books fascinate him with his realism, intricate plot and unpredictable finale. Although no one even imagined that the outline of a novice writer would attract the attention of so many fans of fantasy. About what works the author has written, we will tell further.

Shchepetnov Eugene V.: Library

Among the works already written by the author, the following books can be distinguished:

• "Wandering shadows" (from a series of military fiction) ;
• "Healer" and "Magician", "Warlord" and "The Gray Lord" (from the series of heroic fantasy included in the "Istra cycle");
• "Manager";
• "The Beggar" and "Wild Lands";
• and others.

In addition to individual novels, many works are included in the original series of Evgeny Shchepetnov. For example, we can distinguish the following:

• "Monk";
• "Beggar";
• "Glory";
• "Griffin";
• "Ned";
• "Mage with a flaw";
• "Yin Yang".

"Wandering shadows" and the salvation of the world

One of the most widely read works of the author is the book "Wandering shadows" - this is a fascinating story about a simple guy, Petya Mikhailov, who is destined to finally reveal the secret of the disappeared settlement of Arkaim.

At one point the protagonist becomes a victim of an accident, as a result of which he acquires unusual supernatural abilities. As a result, an ordinary young man who graduated from physician, is available that information that ordinary people can not get. From this moment Peti gets used to new abilities and opportunities, which he does not hesitate to use far from righteous goals ...

Here is a fantasy novel in 2012, written by Eugene Shchepetnov. All the books of this writer contain similar characters, which do not at all resemble "white and fluffy" heroes. All of them are endowed with real character traits, taking into account their shortcomings and weaknesses.

"Road to the Tao" from the cycle "Yin-Yang"

Another bright work is "The Road to Tao". This is an unusual fantastic action film from the series "Yin-Yang", which tells of the adventures of the main character Sergei Sazhin in an amazing wizarding world. This time, in the guise of a hero, a militiaman acts, placed by chance into a woman's body. It is he who is the key to unraveling the mystery of the mysterious salvation of the real world, for which he will fight with an experienced and sinister sorcerer.

In this work of 2015 release you are waiting for exciting chases, reincarnations, unexpected turns in the plot and a lot of magic. Eugene Shchepetnov described all this in his novel. "Road to the Tao" - the second part of the series of sensational novel with a mixture of detective and fantasy.

"Monk" and its parallel worlds

"Monk" is the third bright novel of the writer, released in 2014 and included in a series of five novels. This is the very first part of the adventure cycle, telling about the journey of the main character into the parallel world. Here he is waited by unusual demonic creatures, dragons, leche, kikimors and other fairy-tale characters endowed with strong and negative magic.

It is interesting that Yevgeny Shchepetnov wrote "Monk" in the key of a kind of anti-hero. His character - it's not an angel, but a former hired killer and at the same time a monk. Accordingly, in addition to battling with fantastic essences, Andrew is forced to constantly and his own internal struggle, giving in or not agreeing to another temptation. And then the hero has to save his friends and find answers to the questions that torment him.

The historical and fantastic novel "The Doctor"

"Healer" is a book that was included in the so-called "Istra cycle", consisting of four novels (including this one): "Magician", "Warlord" and "Gray Lord". And again it raises the question of parallel worlds.

This time, the main character falls into a world equivalent to the time before our era, when carnivorous dinosaurs walked the earth. However, unlike the real one, magic is present in it, and palace intrigues are intertwined, there is a slave system and many other interesting things. As you can see, this is a real cocktail of genres and epochs, in which a very subtle historical parallel can be traced. And it was in 2013 that he created Yevgeny Shchepetnov. "Doctor" - this is a confusing illustration of the past with a combination of exciting present.

Space fiction - "Corporation. Plague Planet »

"Corporation. Plague Planet »is a book created in 2015 and belongs to the cycle of space fiction. It talks about the adventures of Slay Dongar, who is a man from the future and at the same time a bored salesman. His monotonous daily work is annoying, and in his spare time he dreams of flying. Suddenly, the life of the hero changes radically. All the blame for the unexpectedly obtained inheritance in the form of a mysterious space truck ...

In this work of the protagonist awkward troubles await, a lot of adventures, chases and even skirmishes. Such an action in a fantastically fantastic package.

Mage-demonologist and "Labyrinths of forgotten roads"

"Labyrinths" - this is a fantastic work about the founder Neda Black, who received a colossal experience as a magician and simultaneously a demonologist. Based on the plot, he has to save his wife, who was previously poisoned by ill-wishers. He goes in search of a medicine, in order to awaken his wife from eternal sleep. On the way, Ned meets a lot of obstacles and contests, from which he has to go with his head held high.

What is the difference between Shchepetnov's characters and others?

Unlike the characters of a similar genre, Yevgeny's characters are not that good. They lead an indiscriminate way of life, often abuse alcohol, sometimes unclean by the hand and excessively addicted to carnal pleasures. The author does not have the righteous, and even monks are former killers and prisoners.

In a word, despite the theme of fantasy, his characters are people from real time with their shortcomings, sins and weaknesses. In addition, the writer's books "a lot of violence, blood and corpses." That is why almost all the novels of the writer have some mark "18 +".

According to the author himself, his task was to show real people who fell into non-standard conditions for them. But whether to read these works or not, let each of you decide it yourself.