The Witcher of Grand Kiev


The Witcher of Grand Kiev is a series of short stories of the genre of technofantasy, written by Vladimir Vasilyev, a Russian author of Ukrainian origin. It is a parody of The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski, which has the approval of Sapkowski.
In 2003, the literary series was awarded the Golden Caduceus by the international fiction festival "Star Bridge" in the nomination "Cycles, series and novels with a sequel". Also, the titular story "Witcher of Grand Kiev" got in 2000 both prizes of the Urania festival: the Greater Urania from readers and the Lasser Urania from writers.

Stories

World of Grand Kiev

In the universe of stories, the planet Earth, inhabited not only by homo sapiens, collided with a large celestial body.
After the catastrophe, the world is divided into large cities and independent closed autonomous territories between them. Humans, elves, orcs, and other intelligent races coexist relatively peacefully. Magic and science intertwined, living machines appeared, and the leading role in society was taken by "technicians" who have knowledge and skills to handle these machines.
One of megacities under leadership of technicians is Kyiv, which spreads over the entire area of continental Ukraine, bypassing only the Crimea.
Over time, useful living technology began to go out of control: intelligent machines unattended turned into bloodthirsty monsters, elsewhere began to reproduce spontaneously in abandoned factories. The problem became so great that Arzamas-6, a school of witchers, was created. Trained witchers exterminate mechanical beasts for a fee, half of which is given to their training center.