Vikings. Those who pay in iron and not in silver. They know no fear, because the palaces of the gods await the dead, and wealth and glory await the living. A...

“In the Days of Defeats and Victories” was the title of Arkady Gaidar’s first story about the events of the Civil War, which also unfolded in Ukraine. Gaidar...

The English penchant for a good ghost story is well known. “As soon as five or six native English speakers gather round the fireplace on Christmas Eve, they ...

All over the world, American science fiction writer Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) is recognized as the best master of humorous fiction and an excellent short s...

Emperor Alexander I (1777-1825), who reigned in Russia since 1801, is one of the most mysterious figures in Russian history. Probably, no other sovereign has...

Of course, the fantasy genre arose long before Tolkien. But it was he, the King, the creator of the wonderful world of Middle-earth, who became the cornersto...

Ghosts, spirits, phantoms are eternal wanderers who find no rest: they plunge ordinary people into awe, push them to reckless actions, and make them believe ...

This book was written by the famous American writer Andre Norton (Alice Mary Norton), known to our readers from the novel “Sargasso in Space,” which appeared...

2250 year from the Nativity of Christ. Planet Earth two hundred years after the atomic war. Teenage mutant Force embarks on a perilous journey into a valley ...