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“Gertruda killed the mistress!”

That was the first thing I heard when I opened my eyes in this new world. Gertruda—that’s apparently me. And now I need to whip a long-neglected estate into shape and fend off enemies who would lay claim to my property, all while somehow finding the time to prove my innocence before the locals put me behind bars.

An experienced senior surgeon falls asleep in the doctor's lounge after a challenging shift. He wakes up in another world and in a different body—with a stab wound in his chest. Before he can do anything else, he has to deal with the stranger, lavishly dressed in 19th century clothing, whose hand is gripping the bloody dagger. Once the intensity eases up, he has a chance to look around.

This world looks like his own, but in a completely different time period. It's not technology that rules here but magic, and the impossible becomes possible. But now there's a new problem: something strange happened to the previous owner of the body the surgeon has found himself in, and the healing gift he inherited has been lost. He must recover his gift and master new ways of healing with magic. His knowledge of anatomy and surgery prove useful, the ace up his sleeve.

However, things aren't as simple as they seem on the surface. Medicine in this unfamiliar world is accessible only to a select few. Pushing down resistance from the local "luminaries" who want nothing to do with reform, our senior surgeon, Alexander Sklifosovsky, intends to correct this injustice. After all, he knows all too well the forces that will stand in his way. But if he achieves his goal, the health and well-being of this new world's people could be forever changed.

I was reborn… inside a painting. My own portrait. For eight hundred years, I was forced to watch my bloodline decay—generation by generation—helpless, forgotten, doomed to fade into irrelevance.

Everything changed when a kid named Anatole got curious. “I read in a book that our great Prince can be summoned. You just have to turn the portrait upside down. Everything’s written there.”

Impossible. Right? They figured it out at last.

I awaken to chaos. Enemies lay siege to the ancestral castle. My descendants panic, faint, and generally disgrace the family name.

Unacceptable.

It’s time to reclaim my rightful place, take command of the house once more, and restore order—whether my hapless heirs are ready or not.

Eight centuries of waiting are over. The Prince has returned.

And I will not let my lineage be erased on my watch.

Readers are probably familiar with dozens or even hundreds of stories about characters who get summoned to magical worlds or transported to them by the will of the gods. And those characters inevitably end up gaining extremely useful fighting abilities, unique weapons, and other items, if not immortal deities as companions, all of which allow them to survive in their new world and lead a generally carefree existence.

But what if you got sent to a dangerous and unfamiliar world without being granted any powers? No friends, no weapons, the same body – no gigantic biceps ripping through your sleeves, no muscular physique. Your only advantages are your wits and lots of experience playing computer games, mainly strategy.

Would you try to survive under those conditions? What if you could not merely survive but conquer the entire world?

People awake in a strange place with no idea of who or where they are. There is only a bizarre message carved into a metal obelisk and the growing awareness that every single living creature in this new world is a deadly threat. Even a seemingly cute and fluffy bunny has a taste for human flesh…

What are they to do? How will they survive? How do they stay sane?

Get this: you wake up in the hospital. You’re not feeling so hot - to put it mildly - and also, you’re surrounded by hordes of zombies! After trying to run away, you eventually find a map of the building, but guess what? It’s in French! Why? ‘Cuz you’re in France!

You’ve got nothing on you but a baseball bat, and the zombies are just one step away from biting you on your bare backside. But don’t worry, there’s still hope, because you’ve got your own personal shelter in spacetime.

An alien civilization offers the human race a deal – access to the Other Side and the extraction of its resources in exchange for technology and knowledge. Thanks to this, humanity opens up a whole new universe full of unusual opportunities.

Alex, just starting out as a prospector, sets off to the Other Side for the first time, but during the journey he finds himself in an unknown and extremely dangerous area, from where he can only escape over the bodies of his enemies.

The Gods came up with a game: one created Demons, the other created Heroes.

The conditions were simple: if the Heroes could beat the Demons, then their lives in the real world would be saved; if not, then their mortal wounds would kill them.

But what's to be done when the Heroes start fighting amongst themselves, and the Ruler of the Demons turns out to be far too powerful?

Well, one can always improvise...

As the last survivor, our Hero conquers evil and returns to his world - to modern Russia… with 400 years of lived experience still stored in his memory!

We’ve all seen stories about parallel worlds where history has taken a somewhat different turn. In The Doctor from Nowhere, an army doctor Igor Ivanov finds himself in just such an alternate universe. After a fatal mine explosion, he awakens in late 1914 where World War I is raging and his home country Russia is on the brink of destruction.

Igor does what he’s always done: he starts saving people’s lives using scientific advancements that were inconceivable over a hundred years ago. In addition to his uncanny knowledge of futuristic medicine, he also amazes his colleagues with his combat skills - having served in 21st-century war zones, he knows how to handle a gun.

As time goes on, Igor starts making connections and climbing the social ladder, driven by a single ambition: to change the course of world history.

Might is right. This is the primal law of the jungle, and this creed not only rules the animal kingdom, but also shapes the lives of men.

Having harnessed the elusive Qi energy, humanity has divided the world into zones and mastered the creation of extraordinary artifacts, edging closer to immortality. Yet, this evolution has only entrenched the fundamental law: power grants privilege. The strongest claim the finest resources as well as the right to rise above others.

What chance does an ordinary youth from the neglected zero zone have in such a world? Is it his destiny to reach unimaginable heights — or to vanish into the abyss of mediocrity, just another forgotten face in a crowd of millions? The answers rest with the inscrutable Heavens—the silent watchers of human fate.

Incidentally, where do demons and ancients fit in this grand scheme? Their mysterious roles in this epic tale remain to be unveiled.