Roman Valerievich Zlotnikov - Russian science fiction writer was born on May 13, 1963 in the city of Sarov (then it was called Arzamas-16). From 1992 to 2004 - an employee of the Obninsk branch of the VIPK of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (shooting, psychology). In December 2004 he retired. Since 1998 - writer. The total number of books exceeded 100, a third of them were co-authored.