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Elara S. Novikova

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Born

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Website

https://www.elaranovikova.com

Genre

Romance, Historical Fiction, Thriller

Influences

Anais Nin, John le Carre, Milan Kundera

Member Since

July 2026

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/elaranovikova

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Elara S. Novikova writes erotic fiction for readers who like their desire served with history, science and a cold war chill.

About me:

I was born in Bishkek in 1999, into a family that stretches from the Kamchatka coast to a card catalogue in Chișinău. My mother comes from a line of meteorologists and taught me never to argue with data. My father keeps the catalogue of the National Library of Moldova in order and taught me, without meaning to, what states prefer to forget.

I studied computer science in Naryn, took an M.Sc. in Symbolic Systems at Stanford, and am finishing a doctorate in Bishkek on how authoritarian states manage science. I pay the rent by debugging other people's code and translating technical Russian.

I write historical fictio Elara S. Novikova writes erotic fiction for readers who like their desire served with history, science and a cold war chill.

About me:

I was born in Bishkek in 1999, into a family that stretches from the Kamchatka coast to a card catalogue in Chișinău. My mother comes from a line of meteorologists and taught me never to argue with data. My father keeps the catalogue of the National Library of Moldova in order and taught me, without meaning to, what states prefer to forget.

I studied computer science in Naryn, took an M.Sc. in Symbolic Systems at Stanford, and am finishing a doctorate in Bishkek on how authoritarian states manage science. I pay the rent by debugging other people's code and translating technical Russian.

I write historical fiction about the erased margins of Soviet science: the ternary computer that actually worked, a sealed experiment on a 1985 space station, a shortwave signal that has never explained itself, a Moldovan hospital with a long memory. The people in my books are invented. The history underneath them is not. Women who were cut out of the official record keep turning up at the center of whatever I write; I have stopped pretending that is a coincidence. One of the four novels I wrote in German, because some obsessions choose their own language.

I live alone in a rented flat in Bishkek with a samovar, a copper cezve, a shortwave receiver parked at 4625 kHz, and an old red Lada Niva with opinions. First drafts happen longhand, in squared notebooks. On research trips I weigh the pages down with a stone from wherever I am. The stones stay on my desk.

The blog at elaranovikova.com is the longer version: the archives, the roads, the flat, and everything the books grew out of.

Start here:

SECRET DAWN AMONG THE STARS: a classified Soviet space mission, five cosmonauts in orbit, and the scientist ordered to observe their most intimate behavior. Also available in German as "Geheimes Morgenrot unter den Sternen".

DER BUZZER UVB-76 (German): the real numbers station that has hummed since 1973, a bunker in the taiga, and a signal that turns the body against the mind.

IVANOV'S GHOST: Moldova, 1998. A NATO pilot crashes, four nurses respond in ways none of them chose, and a woman in a black uniform starts taking measurements.

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Summer sale: every book 2.99 until August 19

From July 23 to August 19, all of my ebooks cost 2.99 euros. Short and simple.

What you can pick up:

SECRET DAWN AMONG THE STARS (English). A classified Soviet space mission, five cosmonauts in orbit, and the scientist ordered to watch them fall in love while Moscow reads her reports. Zero gravity, zero privacy.

GEHEIMES MORGENROT UNTER DEN STERNEN (German). The German edition of Secret Dawn.

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Published on July 16, 2026 10:28 • Tags: cold-war, erotica, german-books, sale, soviet-union

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