“The book, known as “The Sword and the Rainbow” or “The Saga of Helot of Languedoc,” appeared in the famous fantasy series of the North-West publishing house in 1993 and was listed as my translation from English. To this day, “The Sword and the Rainbow” remains my most famous book. This book has a certain charm that remains a mystery to me. I am grateful to this bungler and graphomaniac - Helot from Languedoc. Many years later, having made another unsuccessful attempt to write a sequel to “The Sword and the Rainbow,” I began writing not about Helot, but about Languedoc. And in the end I visited there. But that’s another story...”E.V. Khaetskaya