Alex
started writing in 2007 when he joined Russia's biggest writing community
Samizdat. He submitted his first stories to several online writing contests at
the same time as he discovered the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game. He then came up with
his first original story featuring military stalkers. An ex-paratrooper, Alex used his military knowledge and experience to write his debut novels for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
At Samizdat,
Alex met Andrei Levitski. Together, they co-authored The Zone Warriors, Alex's first novel for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
series. However, due to marketing considerations, his byline didn't appear on
the book. In the process of novel research, the two co-authors visited the Chernobyl
nuclear power station and traveled across the entire Exclusion Zone, witnessing
many deserted towns and villages, including the ill-fated towns of Chernobyl
and Prypiat. In 2009, Alex published his second novel, A Quantum Bullet, featuring the adventures of two military
stalkers, Labus and Camper.
The same
year Alex and Andrei came up with a new eight-novel project. Entitled TechnoTma ("tma" meaning
"darkness" in Russian), it depicts a post-apocalyptic world after The
Peril. The first novel to come out was Password
Eternity, followed by The Wastelands
Clans, Barbarians of the Crimea, Jager and The Sand Blues. After that, Andrei Levitski started working on a
sequel to The Wastelands Clans, while
Alex Bobl wrote the final books of the series, The Fall of the Skies and The
Last Battle, where all the protagonists unite in order to confront the
enemy and get to the roots of The Peril.
After that,
the two co-authors continued working together, writing a novella for a TechnoTma anthology The Wastelands Legends, out in April 2012. And a month later, the
German release of TechnoTma followed.
Alex's next
project, a standalone novel Memoria. A
Corporation of Lies, has come out to controversial reviews. A SF action
thriller dramatically different from his earlier works, it tells the story of a
lone fighter who challenges the power-grabbing plans of an
international corporation capable of erasing people's memories.
Alex now finished his SF action novel Point Apovalypse, came out in English at spring of 2013. He now works on his new novel, working title Virus Z, came out in English at automn of 2013.
biography compiled and translated Irene Woodhead
