Richard Blade (series)


Richard Blade is an adult fantasy pulp novel series produced by Pinnacle Books between 1969 and 1984. The 37 books in the series were written by Roland J. Green, Ray Nelson, and Manning Lee Stokes under the pseudonym "Jeffrey Lord".
The novels were also released as audio books, and as trilogy sets- each set having edited versions of 3 novels on 6 cassettes, and later on cds, under the name "Richard Blade Journeys". These were released as Americana Audiobooks by Americana Publishing in English.

Plot

The novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character, who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Along the way, he would have several explicitly described sexual encounters with beautiful women, and would usually return from his adventure with some item, or bit of knowledge useful to Britain. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all of the stories are set in England. The series was translated into several languages, including Russian, Swedish, French, German, and Greek.

Books in the serieshttp://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?11260 [Internet Speculative Fiction Database entry for Richard Blade Adventures]

  1. The Bronze Axe
  2. The Jade Warrior
  3. Jewel of Tharn
  4. Slave of Sarma
  5. Liberator of Jedd
  6. Monster of the Maze
  7. Pearl of Patmos
  8. Undying World
  9. Kingdom of Royth
  10. Ice Dragon
  11. Dimension of Dreams
  12. King of Zunga
  13. The Golden Steed
  14. The Temples of Ayocan
  15. The Towers of Melnon
  16. The Crystal Seas
  17. The Mountains of Brega
  18. Warlords Of Gaikon
  19. Looters of Tharn
  20. Guardians Of The Coral Throne
  21. Champion of the Gods
  22. The Forests of Gleor
  23. Empire of Blood
  24. The Dragons of Englor
  25. The Torian Pearls
  26. City of the Living Dead
  27. Master of the Hashomi
  28. Wizard of Rentoro
  29. Treasure of the Stars
  30. Dimension of Horror
  31. Gladiators of Hapanu
  32. Pirates Of Gohar
  33. Killer Plants Of Binnark
  34. The Ruins of Kaldac
  35. The Lords of the Crimson River
  36. Return to Kaldak
  37. Warriors of Latan

    Russian editions

In the early 1990s the Russian publishers could secure the rights to only the first six books in the series, and approached the translator - Mikhail Akhmanov - to write the further adventures of Richard Blade. Together with then young sci-fi author Nick Perumov and others, Akhmanov wrote over sixteen sequels to the adventures of Richard Blade, and then, after writing Russian sequels to the saga of Conan, went on to create numerous original characters and plots. Like the Conan sequels, the Russian Richard Blade sequels are not available in English. Today Akhmanov is the author of over fifty fantasy and science fiction novels.