In 2003, the literary series was awarded the Golden Caduceus (1st place) by the international fiction festival "Star Bridge" in the nomination "Cycles, series and novels with a sequel".[6] 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.[7]
Stories
The Technician of Grand Kiev («Техник Большого Киева», 1997)
The Witcher of Grand Kiev («Ведьмак из Большого Киева», 1999)
Duty, Honor and Taimas («Долг, честь и taimas», 2000)
Price Issue («Вопрос цены», 2001)
Motherland of Indifference («Родина безразличия», 2002)
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.[8][9]
^Warnke, Agnieszka (2019-10-18). "'The Witcher': The Road From Rivia to Hollywood". Culture.pl. Want to see Geralt wearing jeans, armed with a cell phone and notebook, hunting rebellious robots while riding a taxi? Yes, but only in the cyberpunk world of Vladimir Vasiliev. His Witcher of Grand Kiev also appears in Tales of the Witcher World, a tribute to Sapkowski by Russian and Ukrainian writers.
^Kovalenko, Valentyna (2014-02-27) [2014]. Будущее, которое уже началось [A future that has already begun] (ZIP, DOC). Відкритий урок: розробки, технології, досвід [Open Lesson: Workouts, Techniques, Experience] (in Russian and Ukrainian). No. 4. «Пересечение с „Ведьмаком“ Сапковского не является случайным. Оно реализуется с согласия его автора Анджея. Автор этого не скрывает». ["The intersection with Sapkowski's The Witcher is not accidental. It is implemented with the consent of its author Andrzej. The author does not hide this".]
^Berdnyk Hromovytsia (2003). Зоряні зустрічі на «Зоряному Мосту» [Star meetings on the "Star Bridge"]. Книжковий огляд [The Book Review] (in Ukrainian). No. 9. Archived from the original on November 28, 2003.
^Урания [Urania]. Лаборатория Фантастики (in Russian). {{cite book}}: |trans-work= ignored (help)