The rational for both the crime and the prison system is convincing. It's all quite cleverly done, the MCs actions read as clever and thought out without relying on luck etc. The satisfaction of which allows prisoners out of the 'prison world' into the 'general world' (remembering that 40% of the population at large plays the game) in a probation type fashion. The overall thrust is toward earning a (big) threshold of (what ammounts to) good-will points with the prison system AI / overseer. The vr prison system for non-violent prisoners quickly shows its darker elements within the game constraints and the MC needs to powerup and make allies within this environment. Synopsis is a guy is quasi-tricked (we don't know if the 'tricker' does it deliberately or not) into hacking a public utility and gets sentenced to prison, the term to be served sweat shop style making virtual objects in the monopoly virtual world. Since the vrmmo sub-genre is a staple of eastern fantasy, this book blends some of better points of both western and eastern fantasy. This is the best VRMMO story i've read, certainly better than the later books of the Alterworld series. Set in a space-simulator based world, the first book of the series in already finished while Vasily works on its sequel. Vasily's other passion is space exploration which is why he now works on a follow-up series entitled Galaktiona. The first book of the series has already been translated into English, with more translations to follow, aiming to make the Way of the Shaman series available to the English-language reader in its entirety. At the moment, the series boasts six novels with the seventh one in the works - this time the author expands on stories of Shaman's companions and those who helped and supported him in his trials and tribulations.

He used his more than ten years' experience as an ERP implementation project manager to approach his writing in a well-organized manner, working to a strict schedule, a set of deadlines and even a budget. His bestselling series combines fiction and video games, telling the story of Shaman and his friends stuck in the ruthless reality of Barliona.

Vasily dipped into his college-days insider knowledge as a hardcore gamer in order to create a believable world of the virtual-reality MMO game. His Way of the Shaman series took Russian literature by storm in 2012. Vasily Mahanenko is a fantasy author working in the new genre of LitRPG - the MMO-based fantasy and sci fi.

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