High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Last of the Immortals (Russian: Последний из бессмертных, Posledniy iz bessmertnykh) is a military science fiction novel written by the Russian science fiction writer Andrey Livadny as part of his The History of the Galaxy series. The novel is also sometimes published under the name Retaliatory Strike (Russian: Ответный удар, Otvetniy udar).