About the book: 2021 / Preferring fantasy to other genres, Dave Duncan enthusiastically creates, crosses and explores both worlds and magic. In The Seventh Sword, magic is nothing more than science in disguise, in The Great Game trilogy, magical abilities are based on personal charisma and have religious overtones, and in The Cursed, magic is a synonym for big trouble. However, the writer himself considers the most difficult part to be creating attractive and believable characters. Dave Duncan prefers to work on a computer, typing, by his own admission, very poorly - “with four fingers.” When the book is going well, he produces 1000-1500 words a day and thus writes 2-3 books a year. In 1989, Duncan wrote the novel West of January, for which he received an Aurora Award in 1990. Gravitating towards writing large novels that develop into serials (Duncan wrote only 4 stories throughout his time), the writer tries himself in the genre of adventure-humorous fantasy - the “Omar” duology, consisting of the novels “Rogue Road” (“The Reaver Road", 1992) and "The Hunters' Haunt", 1995) - and in the pseudo-historical, releasing the series of novels "The Years of Longdirk" under the pseudonym Ken Hood: "Demon Sword" , "Demon Rider" and "Demon Knight". Reviewers' reviews of Duncan's works vary. Most agree that both the plots and characters in his stories are somewhat simple, but at the same time they have incredible appeal - once you start reading the book, you won’t be able to put it down. Contents: STORIES ABOUT THE ROYAL BLADES:1. Gilded chain (Translation: Nikolay Kudryashov)2. Lord of the Tierra del Fuego (Translation: Nikolay Kudryashov)3. Firmament of Swords (Translation: N Kukushkina) CHOSEN (DUNCAN): 1. Slaying Blade 2. Outcasts 3. Battlefield 4. Living Deity (Translation: Anna Khromova, Oksana Stepashkina) DODEK: 1. Children of Chaos (Translation: Vladimir Goldich, Irina Oganesova)2. Mother of Lies (Translation: Vladimir Goldich, Irina Oganesova) PRINCESS INOS: 1. Princess Inos. Volume 1. Books 1-2 (Translation: Ulyana Saptsina, O. Serebrovskaya)2. Princess Enos. Volume 2. Books 3-4 (Translation: V. Severtseva, E. Markova) THE SEVENTH SWORD: 1. The path of the warrior (Translation: L. Prozorova)2. Finding wisdom (Translation: Kirill Pleshkov)3. Purpose (Translation: Kirill Pleshkov, Olga Stupishina) GREAT GAME: 1. Past imperative (Translation: Nikolay Kudryashov)2. Present tense (Translation: Nikolay Kudryashov)3. The future is uncertain (Translation: Nikolay Kudryashov)