Competitors (movie)

A new, unique novel by Sergei Lukyanenko "Competitors" is a real creative experiment. This time the author took as the basis of narration is not the reality, and the space online game "Starquake" (www. starquake.com)
In the modern world of a computer game sometimes substitute for life. What to do if your life suddenly turns into a computer game? And impossible to separate one from the other?
The hero of the new novel by Sergei Lukyanenko - the journalist Valentin Safonov - knows the answer. You need to accept the rules of the game and not give up. Once, yielding to impulse, he breaks from the post strange announcement, are invited to become a pilot of a space fighter. Out of curiosity he goes to the office "Star hour" until the last moment, already agreeing to all the terms, do not believe in the reality of the situation. And for good reason. Because now it is split in two: One Valentine will go into the universe online PC game, meet the flight, battles and adventures, and the other will remain on Earth to play this same game.

The genre of his new book Sergei Lukyanenko defined as "coooper". He admits that he had long wanted to write something similar.