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The 1st book of science fantasy novel of two volumes by Henry Lion Oldie "The Poweful Ones. Vol. 1: A Prisoner of the Iron Mountain" is published in Czech Republic. The 2nd book is coming soon. This is our second Czech edition. The first was H. L. Oldie's novel "The Way of the Sword".

A new book by Henry Lion Oldie "Carp & Dragon. Book 1: Tales of Karma" (alternate history, mystics, historical detective, medieval Japan) is just published in Russian in hard cover by "Azbooka" Publisher -- "Azbooka-Atticus" Publishing Group. Inside black-white illustrations by Alexander Semiakin. The cover painting by Vladimir Bondar. Book trailer to this book (in Russian):

"Nuancers", a new historical mystic novel by Henry Lion Oldie is just published in Russian in hard cover by "Azbooka" Publisher -- "Azbooka-Atticus" Publishing Group, Russia, St. Petersburg. Inside black-white illustrations by Alexander Semiakin. The cover painting by Eugeniy Deko.

A complete edition in one volume of the space opera trilogy-novel "Oikoumene" by Henry Lion Oldie, starting novel of the same-titled space opera epic, is just published in Russian by "Azbooka" Publisher -- "Azbooka-Atticus" Publishing Group. Inside black-white illustrations by Alexander Semiakin. Front cover picture by Elena Gondik. Hard cover, 960 pages.

The new book by Henry Lion Oldie "Prodigal Son. Book 3: The Son of the Wind", the third, final book of new trilogy-novel from space opera epic "Oikoumene" was just released in Russian in hard cover! (Azbooka Publisher -- Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Group, Russia, St. Petersburg). Book trailer to this book (in Russian):

A complete edition in one volume of the fantasy trilogy-novel "Black Trouble-Maker" by Henry Lion Oldie (epic mythological fantasy based on Ancient India epos "Mahābhārata") was released in Russian ("Azbooka" Publisher -- "Azbooka-Atticus" Publishing Group, Russia, St. Petersburg) in Decembr, 2018. It's a special jubilee edition: this trilogy-novel has been published for the first time 20 years ago, in 1998. Inside black-white illustrations by Andrey Pechenezhsky. Front cover picture by Oleg Korzh. Hard cover, 1088 pages.

Today, 13th of November, is the literary Birthday of the writer Henry Lion Oldie. In this day 28 years ago Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky writing under the joint pen-name of Henry Lion Oldie have finished their first common short story "Love for Movies to the Grave and...".

The new book by Henry Lion Oldie "Prodigal Son. Book 2: The Fugitive", the second book of new trilogy-novel from space opera epic "Oikoumene" was just released in Russian in hard cover! (Azbooka Publisher -- Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Group, Russia, St. Petersburg). Book trailer to this book (in Russian):

On Fantastic Assambley in St. Petersburg (Russia) in August, 2018 Henry Lion Oldie received a literary award "For Enlightenment".

The new book by Henry Lion Oldie "Prodigal Son. Book 1: The Renegade", the first book of new trilogy-novel from space opera epic "Oikoumene" was just released in Russian in hard cover! (Azbooka Publisher -- Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Group, Russia, St. Petersburg). Book trailer to this book (in Russian):

A complete edition in one volume of the fantasy cycle "THE KABIR CYCLE" by Henry Lion Oldie (the novels "The Way of the Sword", "Let Them Die" and "I'll Take It Myself") was just released in Russian in hard cover! ("Azbooka" Publisher -- "Azbooka-Atticus" Publishing Group, Russia, St. Petersburg). It's a special jubilee edition: the last novel of the cycle has been finished 20 years ago in spring, 1998. Inside black-white illustrations by Vladimir Bondar and Yuri Platov. Front cover picture by Vladimir Bondar. Hard cover, more than 1000 pages.

Let's watch the photoplay (video) "Second Hand" (tragicomic mysticism) based on the same-titled play by Henry Lion Oldie. The photoplay is in Russian, but English subtitles are included. Welcome!

In the beginning of the new year, in January, 2018, a novel by Henry Lion Oldie "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" (mystical thriller / horror / urban fantasy) got the title of "The Best SF & Fantasy Book written in Russian of 2017" by the "Fantastic World" magazine (Moscow, Russia).

A complete edition in one volume of the fantasy cycle "The Abyss of Hungry Eyes" by Henry Lion Oldie is out of print in Russian ("Azbooka" Publisher -- "Azbooka-Atticus" Publishing Group, Russia, St. Petersburg). It's a special jubilee edition: the 1st edition of "The Abyss of Hungry Eyes" by H. L. Oldie has been published 25 years ago! Inside black-white illustrations by Andrey Pechenezhsky. Front cover art by Vladimir Bondar. Authors' black-white map inside. Hard cover, more than 1000 pages!

The new novel "Bovis ex Machina" ("Bull from a Machine") by Henry Lion Oldie (noir cyberpunk detective) is out of print in hard cover (in Russian). (Azbooka Publisher -- Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Group, Russia, St. Petersburg). Book trailer to this book (in Russian):

26 of August, 2017 Henry Lion Oldie got a literary award "Filigree" for the science fantasy novel in two volumes "The Poweful Ones", by the voting of professional judges of literary critics. This is an award "for literary perfection". So, as far as we understand, our novel is perfect! :-)

Henry Lion Oldie just finished a new novel "Bovis ex Machina" ("Bull from a Machine"), noir cyberpunk detective. After the final author's editing we'll pass the new novel to "Azbooka" Publisher (Russia, St. Petersburg).

A new novel "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" by Henry Lion Oldie (mystical thriller / horror / urban fantasy). Book trailer to this book (in Russian):

Henry Lion Oldie just finished a new novel "Mirror Mirror on the Wall..." (horror / mystical thriller / urban fantasy). The novel is already passed to "Azbooka" Publisher (Russia, St. Petersburg; "Azbooka-Atticus" Publishing Group). If all will be OK, the book will be published in Russian up to the end of May, 2017.

A new collection of short stories by Henry Lion Oldie is out of print in French. The collection titled "La Malédiction" ("The Damnation") is published by "Lingva" Publisher (France). The collection contains 5 very different SF, fantasy and mystics short stories by H. L. Oldie: "Relève-toi, Lazar" ("Rise, Lazar!"), "Le Huitième Cercle du métro" ("The Eighth Circle of Subway"), "Viens me voir dans ma solitude" ("Visit Me in My Solitude"), "Nevermore" ("Nevermore") and "La Malédiction" ("The Damnation"). All short stories have been translated from Russian into French by Viktoriya and Patrice Lajoye.
Our great thanks to Viktoriya & Patrice!

"The Beloved Author(s) of 2016" by "FantLab" website voting: Henry Lion Oldie ("FantLab" is the biggest and most influential Russian SF & Fantasy website)
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The 2nd, final book of new science fantasy novel of two volumes by Henry Lion Oldie "The Poweful Ones. Vol. 2: The Black Heart" is out of print in Russian in hard cover! ("Azbooka" Publisher ("Azbooka-Atticus" Publishing Group), Russia, St. Petersburg, 2016.) Book trailer to this book (in Russian):

The 1st book of new science fantasy novel of two volumes by Henry Lion Oldie "The Poweful Ones. Vol. 1: A Prisoner of the Iron Mountain" is out of print in Russian in hard cover! ("Azbooka" Publisher ("Azbooka-Atticus" Publishing Group), Russia, St. Petersburg, 2016.) Book trailer to this book (in Russian):

7th of May, 2016, space opera novel of 3 volumes "Spurt Flight" by Henry Lion Oldie received "Interpresscon" award on the same-named SF & Fantasy Convention in St. Petersburg (Russia) -- as the best SF & Fantasy novel of 2015 published in Russian. It's a 4th literary award we received for this novel from the beginning of 2016!

A space opera novel of 3 volumes by Henry Lion Oldie "Spurt Flight" received the "Gold RosCon" award on the "RosCon" international SF & Fantasy convention (Moscow, Russia, March, 2016) as the best SF & Fantasy novel published in Russian in 2015.