The bleak and uncompromising novel by a mysterious author who writes in secret.

Literary fiction, Science fiction

The Valkyries is made up of two short stories – “Den skoro jako každý jiný” (A Day Almost Like Any Other) and “Černé slunce” (Black Sun) – which focus on the main character’s journey of revenge on his Valkyrie. Readers find themselves in a human world destined to perish, whose society is collapsing – in this case in the ruins of Prague. A group of survivors gather there, though one of them is killed. The main character, who has a military background, sets out after the murderer. In this novel, as is characteristic of the author, he “does not mince his words” – it is bleak, full of action and uncompromising in the way readers enjoy.

Robert Fabian (1969) is an author of sci-fi, especially military. According to his publishing house, Straky na vrbě, the author wishes to preserve his anonymity. It is well known that the author has been involved in the Czech Republic’s armed forces for many years. He is the author of the action novel Mariňáci (Marines, 2000), the sci-fi story Planeta mezi dvěma slunci (The Planet between Two Suns, 2002), and the two-part novel Carpe Diem (2005) and Semper fi (2009). Valkýry (The Valkyries) is his latest work.