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I have a feeling that, in a more unusual way, they have not yet begun to commemorate a writer’s 90th birthday, but last year I released my first volume of Mercenaries.
It didn’t go well, in fact, I really don’t like throwing a book away and I really don’t like it, but in this case the time has come and the 1983 (third) edition Distant fire (485 pages, glued together) Unfortunately it was off the shelf. It was my favorite edition, it was thirty-seven years ago, he traveled with me on three continents, he witnessed historical moments, so he reached a state in which pages and then entire chapters came out as a result of the fatigue of gluing and the use more neglected books over the years. He would have been attacked by some strange disease that could not be helped. Therefore, this copy has been removed from the shelf, from where, in addition to the same 1983 and 1990 edition, you are also viewing the 2017 edition.
It wasn’t the first science fiction I read, this title is Psychic dreams (Pierre Barbet) and The last war (Kir Bulichov), but if anyone knows these two, he understands why the Mercenary novel, whose protagonist, Gregor Man, is the most talkative protagonist in literary history, immediately became my absolute favorite. The Distant Fire is the average volume of a trilogy, and if I can’t beat it to death, why can’t I The Viking is back I started with the first part, but yes, when I read the first 20-30 pages of Distant Fire, it turned out that the antecedent would be important enough, why didn’t I leave it and go buy the first part: because I lived in a country where the Cosmos books were rarer than the sled, and I know this from the fact that while I saw the sled at the Ibadan market, the Cosmos book was not. (Yes, Dolphin the Forest Captain and Robin Hood were still stolen from us during a robbery, but that doesn’t really matter now.)
The Distant Fire became the book that I reread every year or two.
Not the entire trilogy for some reason, which doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be a great book The Viking he returns, and I wouldn’t have been glad that in 1988 Mercenary wrote the conclusion of the story The last temptation Titled, somehow my favorite realistic fantasy, starting in the late Bronze Age and reaching the Iron Age, processing and narrating the age of earthly city-states, of which, if I had (a lot) money, I would film a six-part miniseries in the last chapter. The book, which can also be considered a historical novel, is about one of the members of an earth expedition to a distant planet, the geologist Gregor Man, who is forced to stay on the planet because he would not let it take off. Gregor remained and continued to live as the king of one of the local city-states, Avana: the novel is a collection of his memories found by local archaeologists carved from clay tablets 800 years later.
Armed with the knowledge of modern man, if he really wanted to, he could subjugate the entire world he knew in a year, but he prefers minimal intervention, advancing on the riverbed on what he needs, and making only minor adjustments to avoid the plague. remove half of the people and so Antiquity seen through the eyes of modern man is an incredibly readable atmospheric world, even despite the clear crosstalk (people of steppes = Mongols, tall conquerors and redheads of the north = Vikings, etc. .). Mercenary is a great storyteller, and as in any of his novels or scripts (The Bunker Three-Part Series), the point is man, which makes us wonder if we can live with our prejudices and if we want to be able to play. God, we have a right to it if we can, and so on.
The name of Péter Zsoldos is much less known today than in the 1980s, but his books were lined up on the shelves of many Hungarian families. He was born on April 20, 1930, graduated from the Faculty of Music with a degree in Music Teaching and Choral Conducting, and since 1956 he became the Music Editor for Hungarian Radio, and later became a senior staff member . He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University with a degree in psychology, which can already be seen as a kind of answer to many questions related to his work. It’s no coincidence that he said this about the science fiction genre:
I think the fantastic token does not entitle anyone to lie. With our imagination, we must create a fiction that in no way contradicts the possibilities of science.
Made for a writer but a musician, his only work without science fiction themes was Mussorgsky. Portrait in four seats. His biographical novel commemorates the great Russian composer. In addition to The Viking’s Return, this work was also published in Russian, and his name is included in three professional bibliographies edited by Vladimir Gakov, which appeared in his life: the third, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Kto jeszty kto? (Sci-Fi Encyclopedia. Who’s Who?) It’s a 1997 edition of the CD-ROM and perhaps even available online in some form. The commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the birth of György Bucsány, Zsoldos, can be found in the archives of szentesinfo.hu, where the above is also mentioned, and the fact that the name of Péter Zsoldos appears in the Russian search engine in approximately 36% of cases.
Homework Her novel was also translated into several (seven) languages (also available on Amazon, in English). In 1975, a three-part television film adaptation starring Ádám Rajhona was completed. In the mid-1980s, he was a little disappointed that science fiction had become too popular, and as a result, the profession had watered down (this view was shared by Stanisław Lem):
In 1970, I thought science fiction was in danger of closure, of inner perfection. Instead, as you should have seen, he was overtaken by the fate of successful genres; Beneath his banner were half talents, unofficial subculture parasites, terror and pornography smugglers, pseudoscientific myth-makers, virtuous selfish surrealists, feather flips who created western elements of impact hunting.
Almost all the novels by Péter Zsoldos are awarded: he received the special EUROCON prize in 1972 and 1973, then the Golden Meteor Prize, the Hungarocon Prize in 1988 and the Galaxy Prize in 1989. He died on September 26, 1997. The Avana Association and The Local Government of the City of Salgótarján established the Péter Zsoldos Prize in 1998, with which outstanding Hungarian science fiction works are awarded annually.
On the 90th anniversary of his birth, Porté in Four Sessions can now be downloaded for free for a limited time, so if you are interested in classical music or want to start meeting one of the popular composers of Hungarian literature in the Kádár era, you can do now with a single click.
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