The article contains a biography, bookography, review of the book "Line of Fire" by Vasily Orekhov. As well as a description of the image of Hemul as a legend of the Zone.
Talented and bright science fiction Vasily Melnik. Who is he?
Vasily Melnik is a talented person who writes under the pseudonyms Vasily Orekhov and Vasily Midyanin. Composer of numerous works in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, combat science fiction.
Biography
He was born on November 8 in 1972 in Moscow. Graduate of Moscow State University of Printing. He worked as an editor at well-known metropolitan publishers, tried his hand at writing scripts for online games, bookselling, and served as the head of the studio that produces interactive books. The compiler of literary collections "Worlds", "Science Fiction", "Crossroads of the Worlds", "Cinema Bestseller", "Crossroads of the Gods", an almanac "Our Fantasy", collected works by Robert Sheckley, Dean Kunz, Clifford Saymak. He served as editor-in-chief of the Black Journal periodical, which covers occult issues. He worked in the periodical Star Road, which publishes news of modern science fiction. Now Vasily Melnik (Orekhov) is working fruitfully in the editorial office of AST.
Creative way
He took his first steps in science fiction as Vasily Midyanin in 2000 with the work "Night Monster". How Vasily Ivanovich Orekhov first appeared in the anthology Russian Fantastic Thriller (2007) with the story The Last Hunt. Composer of numerous novels, short stories and short stories, literary articles, introductory and final parts to various works, reviews of recently released films and books. Prizewinner of the Astrea Prize for 2007, RosCon (2008), awards from The World of Fantasy magazine Itogi (2003), RosCon (2007), Silver Arrow (2007), Astrea (2008 ) In 2017, as Vasily Midyanin, he became the winner of the international "ABS Prize".
Book printing
Under the name Vasily Midyanin, he published 17 books. Among them are the stories Heartbeat, What to Do, Faust ?, The Moscow Golems, Hawk and Scorpio, the stories Global Television, The Night Monster, From the Sewerage, Marvin Complex, the novel Overlords News. " How Vasily Orekhov published 3 bestsellers about Hemul from the Stalker project: "Zone of destruction", "Shelling sector", "Line of fire". He writes very productively in co-authorship. Currently, he has published 8 books together with various writers.
The image of Hemul as a legend of the Zone in the Universe "Stalker"
Stalker Hemul is the main character in the cycle of Vasily Orekhov "Zone of defeat", "Line of fire", "Shelling sector." A tramp who passed through countless adventures in the poisoned radiation of Pripyat, who met his love in the Zone. An adventurer with a rare talent not only to slip into the Zone, but also to return from there. He led wealthy tourists to the Zone and rescued them from the mutants, the military and the Masters of the Zone. He is a regular visitor to the Shti bar, where the same cartoon about an ostrich is played on TV.
His image can be found in the book "The Stigma of the Zone." As a cross-cutting character throughout the Stalker project, Hemul appears as the legendary stalker in the books Escort Group, Zone Warriors, Quick Fire, Obsessed Zone, Yu. Burnosov’s Fall Point, Zone’s Brand, "The Law of the Sniper" D. Sillov, "The choice of weapons" A. Levitsky, "In the fog zone" A. Gravitsky. A fairly typical image of the stalker-hero of the Zone, who periodically becomes the hero of battles with mutants.
The Owners of the Zone themselves, according to legend, living in the heart of Pripyat, do not shy away from communicating with him and offer to become as omnipotent and immortal creature as they are. Hemul's refusal of infinite power made him a legend of the Zone, which stalkers around the fire talk about. The conqueror of female hearts and the prince on a white horse in a gas mask in one bottle.
A huge number of fans of the science fiction genre and the Stalker project read Orekhov’s books only because of the presence of the image of Hemul in them. Indeed, the original character with his own character, morality, psychology, the adventures of which I want to reread and do not want to part with him.
Book "Line of Fire"
In the second part of the cycle, Hemul returns to the Zone, the radiation-affected area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, inhabited by bloodthirsty mutated people and animals and full of dangerous anomalies. However, the happiness of Hemul with his beloved woman is in mysterious danger. Dina is abducted by unknown people. As a true hero, he goes to save his beloved to the most terrible place of the Zone - the fourth power unit.
An interesting plot, good humor, military romance, breathtaking battle scenes - all this can be found if you read the book “Line of Fire” by Vasily Melnik (Orekhov), the second book from the cycle about the stalker Hemula. Dignity, valor and heroism in Orekhov’s books are becoming commonplace. Despite the general gloom of the worlds of the Universe of the Stalker project, the Line of Fire is filled with humor and a positive attitude. You will not find long dialogues and reflections in the book, but there is a chanting of the main human qualities, a belief in the best in people and that good will triumph over evil. Vasily Orekhov in it showed his mastery of the author of large prose works.