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The new, unique novel "Competitors" by Sergei Lukyanenko is a real creative experiment. This time, the author took as the basis of the story not the realities around us, but the space online game "Starquake" (www. starquake. com) In the modern world, computer games sometimes replace people's lives. But what if life suddenly turns into a computer game? And one cannot be separated from the other? The hero of Sergei Lukyanenko's new novel, journalist Valentin Safonov, knows the answer. You need to accept the rules of the game and not give up. One day, succumbing to an impulse, he tears off a strange announcement from a post inviting him to become a space fighter pilot. Out of curiosity, he goes to the office of the "Star Hour" company and until the last moment, having already agreed to all the conditions, does not believe in the reality of what is happening. But in vain. After all, now it will split in two: One Valentine will go to the universe of an online computer game, towards flights, battles and adventures, and the other will remain on Earth - to play this very game.