Happy Birthday, Dmitry Dornichev!

March 2, 2026

From the windswept shores of Sakhalin — that legendary fish-shaped island where bears stroll around like landlords and red caviar is practically a food group — to the vast digital realms of LitRPG and Progression Fantasy, your journey has been nothing short of epic.

With two degrees in computer programming and a lifetime spent mastering code, you could have continued quietly debugging reality. Instead, one fateful day, when the internet failed to provide something worth reading, you did what any true creator would do — you built your own worlds.

And what worlds they are.

In A Shelter in Spacetime, you bend dimensions and survival itself to your will. In The Coming of God of Death, you unleash divine fury with style, humor, and unapologetic necromantic flair. As co-author of The Village and We Are Legion, you’ve proven that whether it’s isolated settlements or unstoppable forces, your imagination knows no limits.

Of course, this creative path came at a terrible cost: vacation, sleep, free time — all sacrificed to the hungry gods of storytelling. But in return, you’ve given readers countless hours of adventure, laughter, tension, and awe.

May this year bring you:

New ideas sharper than a Huntsman’s blade
Plots more intricate than your cleanest code
Readers as loyal as island bears guarding their territory
And at least a little sleep (we insist)

Thank you for the worlds you create, the risks you take, and the stories that keep us turning pages long into the night.

Here’s to more books, more victories, and perhaps — just perhaps — a vacation someday.

Happy Birthday!