Robin Hobb

The first book in a brand new trilogy from the author of the Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies. When the two-hundred year war between the kingdoms of Vania and Landsing ended the Landsingers were left in triumphant possession of Vania's rich coal and coast territories. When young King Troven assumed the throne of Vania thirty years later, he was determined to restore her greatness, not through waging another assault upon their traditional enemies, but by looking in the opposite direction and colonising the wild plains and steppes to their east. Over the next twenty years, cavalry forces manage to subdue the rolling plains formerly wasted on nomadic herders and tribesmen.Troven's campaign restores the pride of the Varnian military and to reward them, Troven creates a new nobility that is extremely loyal to their monarch. Beyond the grasslands lies the current frontier of Varnia, the heavily forested Barrier Mountains, home to enigmatic Specks: a dappled, forest dwelling people, unable to tolerate the heat and full sunlight of the plains. The new settlers find the Specks slightly dim-witted and overly placid, and yet strangely difficult to control. There are tales that they are 'blood-drinkers' and their nature worship of ancestral trees has presented difficulties for those who wish to harvest the forest's exotic timber. They also harbour strange diseases, ones that cause the Specks little more than a week or two of discomfort but which frequently kills those settlers and soldiers who fall victim to it. For that reason, prolonged contact, and especially intimate contact with the Specks is judged both fool-hardy and disgusting. Nevare Gerar is the second son of one of King Troven's new lords. Following in his father's footsteps, a commission as a cavalry officer at the frontier and an advantageous marriage await him, once he has completed his training at the King's Cavalry Academy.

Russian Bibliography

by Konstantin Suvorov

Megan Lindholm

Books of Russian Edition

Harpy's Flight
The Windsingers

1996, Sing Together With a Wind [Poy Vmeste s Vetrom: Saga o Nevedomyh Zemlyah], Saint Petersburg: Azbuka, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-7684-0080-X, 25000 copies, 608 pp.; Series: Unknown Grounds; Title: Poy Vmeste s Vetrom;
  Translated: Galina Trubitsyna [Maria Semenova] [Russian]
    - Sing Together With a Wind [Harpy's Flight], pp. 5-264; Title: Poy Vmeste s Vetrom [Polet Harpii]
    - The Windsingers, pp. 265-606; Title: Zaklinatelnitzy Vetrov

Robin Hobb

Books of Russian Edition

Assassin's Apprentice

1997, Assassin's Apprentice [Uchenik Ubiytsy], Saint Petersburg: Azbuka; Moscow: Terra - Book Club, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-7684-0328-0, 10000 copies, 475 pp.; Series: Azbuka Fantasy; Title: Uchenik Ubiytsy; Cover: Michael Whelan;
  Translated: Maria Yunger [Russian]
 

2002, Assassin's Apprentice [Uchenik Ubiytsy: Saga o Vidyaschih], Moscow: EKSMO; Saint Petersburg: Valery SPD, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-699-01469-1, 10100 copies, 511 pp.; Series: Sword and Magic; Title: Uchenik Ubiytsy; Cover: Don Maitz;
  Map: Irina Zhmajlova; Translated: Maria Yunger [Russian]
 

Royal Assassin

1997, Royal Assassin [Part 1: Korolevskiy Ubiytsa], Saint Petersburg: Azbuka; Moscow: Terra - Book Club, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-7684-0337-X, 10000 copies, 413 pp.; Series: Azbuka Fantasy; Title: Korolevskiy Ubiytsa; Cover: Michael Whelan;
  Translated: Maria Yunger [Russian]
 

1997, Assassin's Secret [Part 2: Tayna Ubiytsy], Saint Petersburg: Azbuka; Moscow: Terra - Book Club, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-7684-0360, 10000 copies, 479 pp.; Series: Azbuka Fantasy; Title: Tayna Ubiytsy; Cover: Michael Whelan;
  Translated: Maria Yunger [Russian]
 

Royal Assassin

2003, Royal Assassin [Korolevskiy Ubiytsa: Saga o Vidyaschih], Moscow: EKSMO; Saint Petersburg: Valery SPD, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-699-01275-3, 8100 copies, 812 pp.; Series: Sword and Magic; Title: Korolevskiy Ubiytsa; Cover: Stephen Youl;
  Translated: Maria Yunger [Russian]
 

Assassin's Quest

1998, Assassin's Wanderings [Part 1: Stranstviya Ubiytsy], Saint Petersburg: Azbuka; Moscow: Terra - Book Club, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-7684-0559-3, 10000 copies, 574 pp.; Series: Azbuka Fantasy; Title: Stranstviya Ubiytsy; Cover: Michael Whelan;
  Translated: Maria Yunger [Russian]
 

2000, Return of the Assassin [Part 2: Vozvraschenie Ubiytsy], Saint Petersburg: Azbuka; Moscow: Terra - Book Club, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-7684-0382-5, 5000 copies, 494 pp.; Series: Azbuka Fantasy; Title: Vozvraschenie Ubiytsy; Cover: Stephen Youl;
  Translated: Maria Yunger [Russian]
 

Assassin's Quest

2003, Assassin's Wanderings [Stranstviya Ubiytsy: Saga o Vidyaschih], Moscow: EKSMO; Saint Petersburg: Valery SPD, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-699-01736-4, 9000 copies, 956 pp.; Series: Sword and Magic; Title: Stranstviya Ubiytsy; Cover: Stephen Youl;
  Translated: Maria Yunger [Russian]
 

Ship of Magic

2003, Ship of Magic [Volshebniy Korabl: Saga o Zhivyh Korablyah], Moscow: EKSMO; Saint Petersburg: Valery SPD, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-699-01644-9, 10100 copies, 1039 pp.; Series: Sword and Magic; Title: Volshebniy Korabl; Cover: Stephen Youl;
  Translated: Maria Semenova [Russian]
 

The Mad Ship

2003, The Mad Ship [Bezumniy Korabl: Saga o Zhivyh Korablyah], Moscow: EKSMO; Saint Petersburg: Domino, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-699-03698-9, 8000 copies, 1103 pp.; Series: Sword and Magic; Title: Bezumniy Korabl; Cover: Stephen Youl;
  Translated: Maria Semenova [Russian]
 

Fool's Errand

2004, Fool's Mission [Missiya Shuta: Saga o Shute i Ubiytse], Moscow: EKSMO; Saint Petersburg: Domino, hardcover,
  ISBN: 5-699-05414-6, 9000 copies, 479 pp.; Series: Sword and Magic; Title: Missiya Shuta; Cover: Paul Youll;
  Translated: Vladimir Goldich and Irina Oganesova [Russian]

Stephen Youll
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Missiya Shuta
[Fool's Errand]

Fool's Errand

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Paul Youll
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Fever down my neck
That's the district of the snows
Level's risin' high
Have I wait for too long?

Ice and dust and mud
in the street and in your eyes
Cover me entrance me now
Make me long for the summer skies

Chorus:

But the wind blows still
There's the time to kill
In your room I have no chance to...

Feel despair is coming close
Scentless fool's surprise
Winter stands as the white horse
Cold and oversized

Pour me wine to warm my bones
Stay with me tonight
Sing me songs of times long gone
There's no wrong or right

Chorus:

Fireplace in time and space
spicy tea beheaded thoughts
wind blows still and wind blows strong
forever more, forever more