The Asutra (in Russian)

by Jack Vance, Alexander Feht (Translator)

Overview

The Asutra (Book 3 of 3 in Durdane series, Russian translation)

The land of Shant on the planet Durdane is ruled by a purposely anonymous dictator called the Anome or Faceless Man. He maintains control by virtue of the torc, a ring of explosive placed around the neck of every adult in Shan't. Gastel Etzwane and his army of Brave Free Men have driven the savage Roguskhoi from Durdane, only to discover that Durdane is but one tiny front - a testing ground - for an implacable enemy intent on subjugating all the worlds of man. Forced to fight a war that is not their own, Gastel and his people are in no position to resist, but must find a way to escape a slave army, and defeat the Asutra!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781499300949
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/09/2014
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (August 28, 1916, San Francisco - May 26, 2013, Oakland) was a famous American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance's stories written in the 1940s and 1950s cover many science fiction themes, with a tendency to emphasis on mysterious and biological themes (ESP, genetics, brain parasites, body switching, other dimensions, cultures) rather than technical ones. By the 1960s, Vance had developed a futuristic setting which he came to call the "Gaean Reach." Thereafter, all his science fiction was, more or less explicitly, set therein. The Gaean Reach is loose and ever expanding. Each planet has its own history, state of development and culture. Within the Reach conditions tend to be peaceable and commerce tends to dominate. At the edges of the Reach, out in the lawless "Beyond," conditions are sometimes, but not always, less secure.
Alexander Feht (born in 1961 near the Siberian city of Novosibirsk), a Russian American poet, translator, and music composer, spent more than 15 years preparing and polishing his Russian translations of Jack Vance's masterpieces. He personally discussed with Jack Vance some daunting difficulties involved in translation of Vance's rhythmical and complex prose, whose mesmerizing character and timeless nobility are often lost in poor translations.