Aleksey Pekhov

Alexey Pekhov writes in the fantasy genre, which combines the styles of Raphael Sabatini and Ursula Le Guin, Roger Zelazny and Alexandre Dumas. His worlds are distinguished by logic and sometimes cruelty. The heroes do not have prototypes, since no one from the environment would authentically fit in, only life experience and some details of reality are used. The only thing in which the author does not see the difference between fantasy and reality is love.

Alexey Pekhov was born in March 1978 in the capital of Russia, but for some reason the documents indicate Elektrostal near Moscow. The boy's parents worked as dentists, and Alyosha also decided to become a doctor. After leaving school, on the second attempt, he entered the University of Medicine and Dentistry, received the specialty of an orthodontist and an outpatient surgeon, and completed his postgraduate studies.

Pekhov began writing fantastic stories as a teenager, but he calls all the works of the initial period pampering. While studying at the institute, he abandoned this entertainment, until one day an old friend called and asked him to compose a couple of pages for an Internet site. This text was then published on the Samizdat portal, opened by Maxim Moshkov, a programmer and creator of the oldest Runet library. There it was read by the editor of the publishing house "Alfa Kniga" and ordered Alexei a novel.

The future laureate of the prize for the largest circulation of books at first refused, believing that such a voluminous work was beyond his strength. But the idea of ​​turning a hobby into a serious occupation was boring for six months. This is how the novel "Crouching in the Shadows" appeared, which became the first part of the "Chronicles of Siala" series about the virtuoso thief Garrett.

In the novels and stories of Alexei Pekhov, the absence of hypertrophied cruelty, bloody scenes, obscene language is noticeable, but the author does not consider it necessary to keep silent that death is sudden and real. The writer limits the game of imagination by answering the question, would he give the book to children to read and what can be learned from it, because the main age audience, according to Pekhov, is young people from 15 to 25 years old.

The first book by Alexei "Crouching in the Shadows" was published in 2002 and was immediately awarded the prize of the publishing house "Alpha Kniga", presented by science fiction writers Andrei Belyanin and Roman Zlotnikov. Immediately, the author published a sequel - "Janga with shadows." A year later, the whole cycle received the second prize of the international festival of fantasy "Star Bridge".

In 2004, the best fantasy novel of the year, Under the Sign of Manticore, was published. Next - the series "Wind and Sparks", for the second part of which - "Seekers of the Wind" - Pekhov was awarded the "Silver Caduceus" prize. The main characters of the story are a married couple with magical powers and who have become the object of persecution by necromancers and other evil spirits.

The 2010 cover of The Guardian features American actor and director Misha Collins, who plays Castiel's angel in Supernatural. The first part of the same name was later added "Autodafe", "Golden Bonfires" and "The Cursed Horn". The main character Ludwig has the gift of seeing what is inaccessible to others.

In "The Sorcerer of the Death Clan," Pekhov turned to the vampire theme. The book was included in the "Kindrat" series, in which it was about two clans of vampires living among mortal people. In addition to "The Koldun", Alexey, in collaboration with Natalia Turchaninova and Elena Bychkova, wrote "The Founder", "New Gods" and "Blood Brothers". The tetralogy received the Wanderer award for the best urban fantasy of the early 2000s, the last part nominated for the title of Book of the Year in 2010.

"Catchers of Fortune" became the 20th edition in Alexey Pekhov's bibliography. The novel told about the elf Las, who went on the run to escape a death sentence for refusing to lead his people to war.

Another fruit of the joint work of Pekhov, Bychkova and Turchaninova is the “Master of Dreams” cycle. In the novel, the protagonists are the community of Dreamers, who are able to manipulate the dreams of the inhabitants of a giant metropolis. Intervention in the mind helps to maintain the balance and reliability of the state.

The wife takes first place not only in her personal life, but also in the creative biography of Alexei. Elena Bychkova and an accomplished writer herself, her husband's co-author, is the first to read and edit Pekhov's manuscripts. Science fiction writer Natalya Turchaninova sometimes joins the joint projects of the spouses. The literary trio has released the series of novels "Spellcasters", "The Master of Dreams", a collection of stories "Chance". Alexey does not undertake to explain how the three of us spell, but says that the number of authors does not make the work easier at all.

The writer, by his own admission, tries to produce 10 thousand characters a day, but this is not always the case. If the muse does not visit, then she does not write at all, "squeezing out words is not good."

Sometimes Alexei reads the works of his colleagues. I like Andrzej Sapkowski and J.K. Rowling, Mikhail Klikin, Marina and Sergei Dyachenko. If Pekhov undertakes to watch films, he prefers American serials that attract by the logic of the plot and adequate heroes.

Pekhov's favorite hobby is traveling, from where the writer brings coins and knives to replenish his collections. Photos from the trips are posted on VKontakte and Instagram.

In an early interview, Alexey said that he would not like to see his own works at the heart of computer games. Such a pastime is generally meaningless. However, later Pekhov wrote scripts for a number of computer "shooters" and "universes".

In 2018, from the pen of Alexei Pekhov, a continuation of the "Contemplator" cycle in the steampunk genre - "Shadow of Ingenium" was released. Ingenium is a kind of device that changes the balance of political forces in society. Side effect - the owner goes crazy. After killing the main character Ethan Shelby at the end of the narrative, the author ended the series, and a hysteria began in the fan communities about this. It was believed that at least 2 more novels could extend Shelby's life.

Alexey left his autograph on a thousand copies. These books are distributed through online stores that the writer collaborates with.

About what Pekhov is doing now, whether it is planned to further develop the cycles of works, the readers are informed by the official website and the blog in Live Journal. For example, the next installment of the Blue Flame series will be released in the near future. The key characters of the heroic fantasy are the acrobat warrior, assassin and necromancer. Such diverse heroes accidentally unite into a team, and a good purpose forces them to forget about personal ambitions.

2002 - "Crouching in the Shadows" 2004 - "Under the Sign of Manticore" 2006 - "Wind of the Wormwood" 2008 - "Spark and Wind" 2010 - "New Gods" 2010 - "Guardian" 2011 - "Spellcasters" 2012 - "Catchers of Fortune" 2014 - "Master of Dreams" 2015 - "Blue Flame" 2017 - "Eriners of Hypnos" 2018 - "Shadow of Ingenium"

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