The Master of the Ice Garden. Volume 1

The Grzedowicz Saga was recognized as the best fantasy book in Poland 2001–2010

Where the master walks, there the garden of monsters gives birth! Abandon hope if you dare to enter here. The monitors will go out, the communication will disappear, the weapons will fall silent. Magic reigns here!

Vuka Drakainen sets out alone to rescue a scientific expedition investigating a humanoid civilization on the planet Midgaard. He has no right to interfere in the development of an unknown culture. Drakainen finds himself in a dark time. The planet greets him with fog and death. A war of the gods is underway. Mortal creatures are dying. Someone has broken an ancient law.

This four-book fantasy saga is written on a scale worthy of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and J. R. R. Martin, R. Zelezny and W. Le Guin. It is distinguished by a subtle combination of elements of science fiction with the genre of "fantasy". The main character Vuka Drakainen arrives on the planet Midgaard to learn about the fate of a scientific mission and return it to Earth. Medieval orders and magic reign here, and Drakainen is waiting for unusual events and twists of fate...
Stunning in its scale and aesthetics, the work of Jaroslav Grzeńdowicz is the best example of modern Polish science fiction, which is rapidly gaining new loyal fans around the world.