Also by Ast Publishers, a new fantasy novel, “The Commander of the Dead Fortress” (Комендант мертвой крепости), by Vladimir Arenev, who spoils us with a post-apocalyptic fantasy. The death of a god led to the destruction of the world. A city however survived, guarded by a fortress which is the last defense against the demonic creatures. The cover is hideous, but the content can only interest us.
As announced last month, the “Large illustrated Complete Works” (БИСС) Publishers continue their reissue program of the work of Vladislav Krapivin, this time with “The Dove in the Yellow Glade” (Голубятня на желтой поляне), which is a pure masterpiece.
Finally, the association of Chiko, Maksim (both in Lugansk, Ukraine) and Snezhnyy Kom (Moscow) Publishers continues in their efforts to publish the best texts from the Partenit Seminar (a creative writing workshop) held by the H.L.Oldie and Andrey Valentinov . So these are three novels by promising new authors that will appear this month.
“The Ethics of Raider” (Этика Райдера) by Alexei Zharkov and Dmitry Kostyokevich, in which the world is facing an unprecedented crisis, and while the West undergoes an uncontrolled wave of immigration, a spaceship lands in distress in Russia.
Then with “Renegades” (Ренегаты), Ivan Lomaka is showing us the XXIIIrd century. Earth population has dropped to 1 billion people, and among them, a few immortals pursued by scientists (note again the fairly not so covenient cover illustration … )
Finally, the “Chaos Generator” (Хаос-генератор