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Bulychev, Kir

Pseudonym of Russian historian, translator and author Igor Mozheiko (1934-2003), known also for books of popular science. Kir – he sometimes lengthened this to Kirill – Bulychev first gained popularity through light and intelligent stories, assembled in volumes like Tchudesa v Gusliaro (coll 1972; trans Roger DeGaris, with additional material, as Gusliar Wonders 1983), Liudi Kak Liudi ["Men Who Are Like Men"] (coll 1975), Letneie Utro ["A Summer Morning"] (coll 1979) and Pereval ["The Pass"] (coll 1983), the full text of whose excerpted title story "Pereval" (July-November 1980 Znanie-Sila) appeared as Poselok (1988; trans John H Costello as Those Who Survive 2000), filmed as Pereval (1988). Some of stories from the above collections were assembled as Half a Life (coll trans Helen Saltz Jacobson 1977). In the humorous Gusliar cycle, the eponymous old Russian town is a place where miracles occur on a routine basis – Aliens land, for example, and fairy-tale Golden Fishes, which grant wishes, are a sell-out in the local pet-store. Bulychev's only adult novel of note, Posledniaia Voina ["The Final War"] (1970), depicts a long-dead Post-Holocaust planet visited by Earthmen who have the technical means to resurrect it.

A prolific writer of Children's SF, Bulychev is perhaps best known as the author of a very long sequence of tales – there were at least twelve books in all – about the futuristic young heroine Alice, beginning with Devotchka S Zemli (omni 1974; excerpts trans Mirra Ginsburg as Alice: Some Incidents in the Life of a Little Girl of the Twenty-First Century 1977 chap US; full trans John H Costello as Alice: The Girl from Earth 2002). Puteshestviye Alisy ["Alice's Travels"] (in Devotchka S Zemli above; vt Alisa's Travels) was filmed as Tayna tretyey planety (1982; vt Mystery of the Third Planet).

Juvenile singletons include Sto Let Tomu Vpered ["One Hundred Years Ahead"] (1978), Million Prikliuchenii ["A Million Adventures"] (1982) and Neposeda ["Fidget"] (1985), which was successfully adapted for the screen. He received the Russian Aelita Award in 1999. [VG]

Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko

born Moscow: 18 October 1934

died Moscow: 5 September 2003

works

Russian titles are selected only.

series

Alice

Devotchka S Zemli ["The Girl from Earth"] (Moscow: Detskaya Literatura, 1974) [omni: includes Puteshestviye Alisy ["Alice's Travels"]: Alice: hb/Yevgeny Migunov]
- Alice: Some Incidents in the Life of a Little Girl of the Twenty-First Century, Recorded by her Father on the Eve of her First Day at School (New York: Macmillan, 1977) [story: chap: excerpt from the above trans Mirra Ginsburg: hb/Igor Galanin]
- Alice: The Girl from Earth (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Xlibris/Peabody, Massachusetts: Fossicker Press, 2001) [trans by John H Costello of the above: pb/]
Million Prikliuchenii ["A Million Adventures"] (Moscow: Detskaya Literatura, 1982) [Alice: hb/Yevgeny Migunov]

individual titles

Posledniaia Voina ["The Final War"] (Saint Petersburg, USSR: Izdatelstvo, 1970) [binding unknown/]
Sto Let Tomu Vpered ["One Hundred Years Ahead"] (1978) [binding unknown/]
Neposeda ["Fidget"] (1985) [binding unknown/]
Poselok (Moscow: Detskaia literatura, 1988) [full text of story excerpted as "Pereval" (July-November 1980 Znanie-Sila): in the publisher's Biblioteka priklyucheniy i nauchnoy fantastiki ["Library of adventure and science fiction"] series: hb/V Rudenko]
- Those Who Survive (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Xlibris/Peabody, Massachusetts: Fossicker Press, 2000) [trans by John H Costello of the above: pb/]
  - Those Who Survive (Hyattsville, Maryland: Capricorn Publishing, 2004) [rev of above trans by John H Costello: hb/]
Agent Cosmoflota (Saint Petersburg, Russia: Azbuka, 1997) [binding unknown/]

collections

Tchudesa v Gusli (Moscow: Mol. gvarii, 1972) [coll: binding unknown/]
- Gusliar Wonders (New York: Macmillan, 1983) as by Kirill Bulychev [coll: trans by Roger DeGaris of the above, with other material: hb/Spencer Drate]
Liudi Kak Liudi ["Men Who Are Like Men"] (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1975) [coll: pb/K Soshinskaya]
- Half a Life (New York: Macmillan, 1977) [coll: trans by Helen Saltz Jacobson from various sources including the above: hb/Paul Lehr]
Letneie Utro ["A Summer Morning"] (Moscow: Mosk. rabochiĭ, 1979) [coll: binding unknown/]
Pereval ["The Pass"] (Moscow: Molodaia a gvardii, 1983) [coll: for title story see Poselok above: binding unknown/]
Fantasticheskiĭ bestiariĭ (Saint Petersburg, Russia: Izd-vo, 1995) [coll: pb/]

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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 01:51 am on 27 July 2024.
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