Each story in this collection by famous Ukrainian writers, and participants of the literary YouTube project "Fantastic talk(s)" is a kind of signpost on the time-space map of Ukraine. The 15th year BC, the 1540s, 1941s, the beginning of the 23rd century... "Chronicles of Unknown Lands" will take you to different eras and corners of our country (and even its space settlements). Everywhere - under the ancient sands of the Black Sea coast, in the castle walls of Podillia, under the layers of black gold of Donetsk region, on the ancient streets of Lviv, and even on the Ukrainian station on the satellite of Mars - discoveries await you. For someone, it will be the unraveling of a mystical history, for someone it will be enlightenment from ancient history, and for someone, it will be an understanding of the history that Ukrainians are writing right now.
Svitlana Taratorina
FOR THE SAKE OF APHRODITE AND ALL HER FACES
The historical fantasy "For the Sake of Aphrodite and All Her Faces" invites readers to the ancient Crimea, to the territory of the Bosporus kingdom (15 BC), where the powerful and incomprehensible queen Dynamia reigns. Kotis, a young man with an uncertain past and an equally bizarre future, wants more than anything in the world to find Aphrodite's cup, which supposedly has the power to grant wishes. But what will he meet when he digs up the ancient burial mound?
Nataliia Dovhopol
DAMSEL IN DISTRESS, OR ALICE IN TROUBLE
Historical fantasy in which the events of the past (XVI century) and the present are intertwined. The legends of the victorious jousts, the knights, and the ladies of their hearts are turned upside down at the historical reconstruction festival in Medzhybizh Castle in Khmelnytskyi.
Iryna Hrabovska
CLOSEST TO HELL
Urban mystical fantasy in the surroundings of the industrial village of Yuzivka and its surroundings during the development of Donbas (1913). At the mine, an unknown entity kills people who mine the black gold of the Ukrainian steppes: the sudden death of young and strong men is difficult to attribute to an accident. The young miner Stepan and the priest's daughter Tosia set out to solve the mystery.
Nataliia Matolinets
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SALVATION OF TILES AND PEOPLE
Adventure urban fantasy against the backdrop of Lviv in the 30s and 40s of the 20th century. The story of two Lviv residents separated by time, but united by a common cause. The story reminds us of the thin line between the complete tranquility of a peaceful existence and the hell of war when instead of credenzas and marzipan, life itself turns to ashes around you.
Dariia Piskozub
THE PROMISED LAND
A space opera, the events of which unfold in the 23rd century. After two hundred years of grueling struggle with its northeastern neighbor, Ukrainian society has undergone many transformations. So, on a space mission to the Ukrainian station on Phobos, augmented neo-Cossacks, militarized northerners, easterners who became close to China after the collapse of russia, and "cruisers" from Halychyna - all so excellent, but capable of quickly rallying in difficult times, went on a space mission to the Ukrainian station on Phobos.
