Kir Bulychev
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Kir Bulychev or Bulychyov (Russian: Кир Булычёв) (October 18, 1934—September 5, 2003) was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko (И́горь Все́володович Може́йко), who was a Russian science fiction writer and historian. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981 and wrote his first science fiction story in 1965. Since 1963 he worked in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was a specialist in the medieval history of Burma.
He is known for his series of humorous short stories about Gusliar, a Russian town that attracts all kinds of aliens and supernatural beings – they were often satires at life in Soviet Russia. Another well known series of Bulychev's stories are young adult stories about Alisa Seleznyova, a young girl from the future. A number of them were made into films, with Guest from the Future ("Гостья из будущего"), based on Bulychev's novel One Hundred Years Ahead ("Сто лет тому вперед"), the most widely known. Another famous film was the animated feature The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981), for which Bulychev penned the screenplay. Alice's Birthday is an upcoming 2007 animated film based on one of his tales.
Bulychev also translated numerous American science fiction stories into Russian, and wrote scripts for more than 20 movies.
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[edit] Bibliography (books published in English)
The dates given are the dates of English editions.
[edit] Fiction
- Half a Life (1977)
- Gusliar Wonders (1983)
- Earth and Elsewhere (1985)
- Abduction of a Sorcerer (1989)
- Those Who Survive (2000)
- Alice: The Girl from Earth (2002)
[edit] History
- 1185 A.D. (1989)
- South-East Asia: Unity in Diversity. Ahmedabad: Allied (with Gennadi Chufrin) (1989).
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