Exilian

Hello, Exilian.
It's me, Alexander. I think many of you here might remember me from the TWCenter days.

I wanted to share that I've published a new book titled *Battle for Artandir – Sol Invictus*. The third one in this year!
That brings the total to three books: *Genesis Lacrima*, *The Limit of Possibilities*, and finally, *Battle for Artandir*.

I should mention that an early version of this book was posted on the forum two years ago—or, to be more precise, nearly three years ago now.
So, feel free to read that version if you'd like.

As it happens, I published the book through the publisher Ridero. I'm very grateful to them, but since they operate under the laws of the Russian Federation, I had to remove certain passages from the Russian version.
However, the original text was written in English and, as I mentioned previously, was published here in 2024.


When I was publishing this book, I included some important points in the acknowledgments section. I made sure to mention the many people who, in one way or another, supported my creative work.

In *The Battle for Artandir*, a major expression of gratitude to Exilian appears almost on the very first page.

The plot follows Captain Owen the Scorch (as seen in *Genesis Lacrima*). The captain must assist Admiral Cadmus Florin and his flagship, the *Sol Invictus*, in a confrontation against a ruthless enemy that threatens the security of the entire Coalition.

If you want to see some lore things, see this.
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7160.0
In that topic i had published all information about the structure of my universe.

I am waiting from you reviews and marks. So be honest. If you think, its not good, just say it. If you think, its good, just say it too. Its will be great for me.

I will continue to work with more stories, books and projects about my own sci-fi world. Its not a stop.

If you have any questios, feel free to ask. Also if you noticed that some parts of the text have scenario style, yeah, its not a mistake, its an authors way to realize. So don`t be confused about that.

I'm curious if you can say any more about what sorts of things you had to remove for the Russian version? I don't know what the laws on this sort of thing are in Russia nowadays.

The most strict law is about gays, lesbians and transgenders. I am european myself, and my relatives too. I am heterosexual, but i don`t have anyting against sexual types.
You need to know only one. When you use russian publisher platform, you need to be polite with every laws, even with the not good ones. So i changed the wife of Eisi Fernand to her... sister. So in the eng text Secretary of Security Council (female) has a wife with name Caitlin. In the rus version her wife is her sister.
Thats all.

Other things are the same as in the eng text.

Interestingly, after publishing the book *Genesis Lacrima*, I encountered some criticism from friends regarding my use of a screenplay format. They pointed out that screenplays are primarily suited for cinema—not for general readership—and that most established fantasy authors emerged from the ranks of prose writers. I took these observations to heart; consequently, *Sol Invictus* is written predominantly in prose. However, since I am also skilled in the screenplay format, I chose to retain that stylistic approach in the prologue and in certain other scenes where it felt appropriate.

Furthermore, I intend to employ both styles—screenplay and prose—in my future books.

Have you ever tried actually getting some people to do a sort of read-through of your script format works? It'd be an interesting thing to do as they're already sort of formatted for it.