«STIKS. The Human Beehive» is a science fiction novel by Artyom Kamenisty.
Welcome to the Beehive — a place that’s easy to get to but impossible to get out. And where it is so difficult to survive that ninety percent of immune newcomers do not reach the end of the first week, and the last year is considered an old-timer. In most of the volatile territory, you are just a game, and rare islands of stability overnight can turn into a death trap for all inhabitants. Mutating zombies; shock drones; soldiers of unknown armies armed to the teeth, for whom you are nothing more than valuable biological material; your outraged colleagues in misfortune, plus a lot of other things, including the forbidden, not named — this is a short list of those who hunt you. So how long can you last here? Day? A week? Year? Time has passed …
© Stony Artyom
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