The Rose and the Worm by Robert Ibatulin Publisher: Sichuan Science and Technology Press

Introduction
▶A blockbuster novel by the rising Russian sci-fi star Robert Ibatulin, a revival of Russian hard sci-fi
▶Won the Strugatsky Award, the Russian Science Fiction Conference Award, the Fantasy World Magazine's Best Russian Book of the Year Award and many other awards
▷An exploration of human spirit and evolutionary will◁
▷An extremely cold and hardcore "thinking game"◁
▶The advanced civilization casts a cold glance at the human world torn apart by ambition.
▶Humans explore the interstellar space to resist foreign enemies, but they also destroy inhabited planets at any time to hold on to power.
▶There is a greater conspiracy behind the chess game, interweaving time and space and multiple narratives, taking you to experience the future universe of Russian hard science fiction.
▶The logical gears mesh precisely, and everything is calculated——
"All the technology described in the novel has been shown to be physically possible. All the parts that can be calculated -
The masses and speeds of ships and shells, the power of engines and weapons—there were calculations behind them. Even the distances between the planets were determined by calculating their actual positions on a given day.”
★Introduction★
In 2295, an attack from an unknown civilization in Aquila turned the Earth into a barren wasteland. To counter the new round of attacks from the Aquila enemies, more than a hundred years later, the humans who survived in the space fleet built a super weapon "Firefly Swarm" to defeat the approaching alien fleet in one fell swoop.
The era of peace has not arrived. With the help of the "firefly swarm", the space fleet stationed on Venus tried to dominate the stars, and the solar system ushered in chaos. To add fuel to the fire, the crisis from the alien planet does not seem to have been completely eliminated. The bionic infected body "Rose" that landed on the earth, the neural network controlled by the "worm" virus... All clues show that the thread of human destiny is controlled by the mysterious advanced civilization in the distant universe.
Under the guidance of advanced civilization, a magnificent picture of civilization evolution unfolds before mankind...
★Book Review Recommendation★
Dazzling future technology, a turbulent solar system, irresistible alien attacks... The novel is thrilling and full of brilliant ideas. The author shows his ambition to build a complex world in this novel.
——Yao Haijun, deputy editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World Magazine
The Rose and the Worm will undoubtedly appeal to all Russian sci-fi readers of all ages, education levels, and worldviews who enjoy realistic depictions of the future. This is already a unique work, and I hope it will be the beginning of a renaissance in Russian sci-fi.
——Russian magazine "Fantasy World"
The Rose and the Worm is the best hard science fiction novel in Russia in the past decade. After reading this novel, I became a fan of Robert Ibatulin. We are in desperate need of such science fiction!
—Anton Pervusin, Russian science fiction writer and critic
He lets his imagination run wild while adhering to the laws of physics. The Rose and the Worm is a perfect combination of a solid hard science fiction setting and a thrilling suspenseful plot.
—Russian readers

About the Author
Robert Ibatulin, born in 1974, is a Russian science fiction writer, a bachelor of theoretical physics, a doctor of history, and is currently engaged in the development of artificial intelligence systems.
In his early years, Ibatulin published historical novels in newspapers. After many years of not writing, he became famous with his first hard science fiction novel "The Rose and the Worm" published in 2015, and won several Russian science fiction awards the following year. His works are influenced by science fiction writers such as Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, and Peter Watts. His writing style is cold and rigorous, and his works have a solid scientific foundation.