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The Boy and the Darkness

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The Boy and the Darkness	comment	The Boy and the Darkness (Мальчик и тьма, Mal'chik i t'ma) is a fantasy novel written by the popular Russian science fiction author Sergey Lukyanenko. The book is about a young boy named Danny who encounters a strange creature calling itself the Sunny Kitten. The Kitten opens a doorway to another world, a world covered in eternal darkness because its people sold their light to merchants from yet another world for amenities of modern civilization (they appear to have been stuck in Medieval Stasis). The humans are in an undeclared war with creatures of the Darkness known as the Flyings, many of whom are former humans who have made a Deal with the Devil to be able to fly in return for their souls. The only ones who can fight them are teenagers known as Wingers who are wearing symbiotic wings that allow them to take to the skies and fly on air currents. Adults are too heavy to be lifted by the wings. There is an understanding of sorts between the Flyings and the Wingers: the Wingers do not conduct massed attacks on the Dark towers, and the Flyings do not raze human cities with a napalm-like substance. It is up to Danny to change the status quo in this world, but he will have to pay the price of growing up to do that.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The book was originally written in 1993-94, but the publisher refused to publish it. Lukyanenko could not do anything but wait for his four-year contract to expire before taking the book to another publisher in 1997, allowing his fans to finally read it. The novel is currently undergoing Animated Adaptation with Lukyanenko's likeness used for one of the characters.One of Lukyanenko's gimmicks is putting references to other novels in his book. Some subtle, others not so much. The protagonist of The Boy and the Darkness is a significant character in The Planet that Doesn't Exist, the second novels in Lukyanenko's A Lord from Planet Earth trilogy who loses his memory of the events due to brain damage. Additionally, an armorer offers Danny one of the Absurdly Sharp Blades prominent in the trilogy. Danny and his partner Lan are also briefly mentioned in Wrong Time for Dragons. In Autumn Visits, one of the characters is a science-fiction writer who appears to be Lukyanenko's Author Avatar, his works including Sunny Kitten and Shadows of Dreams.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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The Boy and the Darkness / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: The Flyings are adults or kids who are close to adulthood who agree to be transformed into creatures of the Darkness in order to be able to fly. These adults are usually former Wingers, who hate being confined to the ground.
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The Boy and the Darkness / int_4fbc0887	comment	Beneath the Mask: Danny is able to look inside people and becomes a Living Lie Detector after his eyesight is restored with the True Light.
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The Boy and the Darkness / int_a122bf2f	comment	Blind Seer: After Danny's eyes are cut out, the Sunny Kitten returns his eyes with the True Light, allowing Danny to see things in much more detail, as well as giving him limited X-Ray Vision and allows him to see inside people.
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The Boy and the Darkness / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: When Danny lets a Flying go, he faces the punishment of execution. In vindication he says that his vision becomes poor at times. However, he should have probably actually read the Codex, which says that, if your arm doesn't let you hunt properly, it is chopped off, and so on. You can probably see where this is going.
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