Inter-author cycle "Richard Blade"

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

It all started with the fact that Richard received an offer to conduct an experiment. There is a certain library where information from all over the world is collected. So, we decided to propose that this library be implemented in it. He agreed to the proposal, and began to conduct an experiment. Thus, Richard finds himself in another world. Previously, he trained with various weapons, including with a sword, these sciences were very useful to him. In the future, he was transferred to other worlds, and also returned back.

Richard Blade was born in Coventry in 1935. He studied at Oxford, wanted to become a secret agent and went to the school "Security Service".

Book series

If you read the "Richard Blade" cycle, all the books in order, numbering 11 volumes, then they go as follows:

• Volume 1 is called "Her Majesty's Agent".
• Volume 2. "Richard Blade, Hero".
• Volume 3. "Winner". Works: "The Pearl of Karheim (Sea Among the Lands)"; "Slave of Sarma" - the computer takes Richard to a world where the Jedds are doomed to destruction by sentencedeities; "Liberator of the Jedds" - Richard must free the Jedds.
• Volume 4. "Richard Blade, the Fugitive".
• Volume 5. "Lord". Works "The Beast of the Labyrinth" - Richard's body transforms into a small child; "Hairy from Urkha", "Alien from the Great Void" - Richard moves to the world of Az alta; "Tallah Fields".
• Volume 6. "Prophet".
• Volume 7. Richard Blade's Odyssey. Enter: "Through the Looking Glass" - British generals are interested in military equipment, which is in the world of Az alta; "Adventures in Blossom Hills"; "Rats and Angels"; "Attila" - Richard finds himself in a world where there is a warrior who strongly resembles the famous Attila.
• Volume 8. Richard Blade's Autumn.
• Volume 9. "Wanderer". Artworks: "Cornish bloodsucker" - Richard meets voodoo priests from Haiti. "Richard Blade and the Blue Caterpillar" - the hero spoiled the plans of drug dealers. "Heaven of Targal", "Shining Noon of Urenir".
• Volume 10. "Aiden's Peer".
• Volume 11. "Richard Blade of Eiden".

About authors

Jeffrey Lord is the pseudonym of a group of authors. Americans and Canadians were the first to write, writing 37 novels since 1969. The banner was picked up by the French, who wrote another 67 works. Mikhail Akhmanov and other Russian authors continued the adventures of Richard Blade.

Here is a list of foreign authors: Roland Green, Lyle Kenyon Ingel, RayNelson, Manning L. Stokes.

Translated into Russian by Mikhail Akhmanov, who also performed under the pseudonym M. Nachmanson, also known under the pseudonym J. Laird.

S. Nachmanson or J. Laird Jr. is the son of Michael. J. Llord - under this pseudonym Andrei Legostaev ("Shakhriyar Queen") speaks. The picture shows some books where there are works by Russian authors.

Also wrote: Alexander Tyurin, Dmitry Dvorkin ("Frozen Hell"), Sergey Shilov ("Autumn Erde"), Alexander Gorin. There are also authors Natalie O`Knight, Christopher Grant, but who is hiding under these pseudonyms is unknown.

Lyle K. Angel

Born in 1915 in New York, in 1957 he began publishing a space science fiction magazine. In the early seventies he wrote 8 novels about Richard Blade. He also published some works of the detective genre.

Blade's works are the largest by this author in the genre of heroic fiction. It is known that in the forties he was the publisher of a magazine about supernatural stories. He died in 1986.

Lyle made up the following stories:

• "Bronze Axe".
• "Jade Warrior".
• The third piece is "Tharn's Jewel".
• Next is "Slave of Sarma".
• 5th work - "The Liberator of Jedd".
• 6th is called "Beast of the Maze".
• 7th -"Pearl of Patmos".
• 8th is called "Undying World".

Roland Green

Born in 1944 in America. The first novel was called "Vandor's Trip", which was published in 1973. Then he continued the cycle and in parallel in the mid-seventies he began to release novels dedicated to Lord Richard Blade, wrote 29 pieces.

Roland Green is very well known in Russia, as he wrote several works dedicated to Conan. Another pseudonym for Green was John Cleve. If we perceive the cycle in terms of family ties, then we can say that Lyle is his "dad", but Green will be his "uncle".

Ray Nelson

Born in 1931. He wrote only one book about Blade in 1979, Dimensions of Horror. He has his own novels, and this work was just an episode. He collaborates with various writers, quite large ones, including Michael Moorcock. Produces various fiction-themed works, including time travel and so on.

Manning Lee Stokes

Was born in 1911 in the state of Missouri, the city of St. Louis. He had many other pseudonyms, such as Ken Stanton. Back in 1945, he began writing a novel dedicated to the criminal world. He also wrote a famous series called "Nick Carter", whose name he used as a pseudonym.

Mikhail Akhmanov

Mikhail accidentally bought 2 books about Richard Blade, was very surprised and began to translate, then 2novels were offered to a publishing house called "North-West". Thus, the novels went on sale.

Mikhail went to look for other works, found some in St. Petersburg, some in America. When he talked to the fans of the cycle, it turned out that the adventures of Richard Blade were published only once, and it is quite difficult to find them. No one could say exactly how many books it contained. Finally, two more novels were found, which Mikhail translated with his friends.

One of the publishing houses offered Mikhail to release the novels in a multi-volume edition, so that there would be three novels in one volume. However, Mikhail knew that he had 8 books and no more. Then the publisher suggested that he write these novels himself. Thus, Mikhail began to print works himself, and other St. Petersburg authors were also involved in writing.

Publishing house "North-West" in 1997 offered to release a large multi-volume and contacted the heir of Lyle Angela, concluded an agreement with him, 25 volumes were printed.

Mikhail says that he has written about 20 works, which he is very happy about, as he has accumulated considerable experience.

Some of Mikhail's works in the cycle:

• "Empty Flowers of Meotida" - in 1994.
• "Targal Heaven" - in 1995.
• "The Werewolf of Middor" - in 1998.