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Kir Bulychev was born—science fiction writer, historian, and orientalist. He also authored a series of books about Alisa Selezneva. And much more.
"Just don't go out searching alone," I warned Alice. "There are very dangerous animals here."
"But I am the king of nature," said Alice.
“The animals don’t know about this,” I said. “They are uneducated.”
Real name - Igor Mozheiko. His pseudonym was a combination of his wife's first name, Kira, and his mother's maiden name, Bulycheva. He graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages. He worked for two years in Burma as a translator and journalist for the Novosti Press Agency. Upon returning to Moscow, he entered graduate school at the Institute of Oriental Studies. He defended his dissertation, "The Pagan State in the 11th-13th Centuries," and his doctoral dissertation, "The Buddhist Sangha and the State in Burma."
Science fiction has always been branded as "tap dancing." No matter how well a tap dancer masters their art, they are inevitably considered inferior to the worst ballet dancer. Similarly, a science fiction writer was inevitably compared to someone who wrote about... rural life, for example.
He wrote science fiction since 1965. He published under pseudonyms—he believed that the leadership of the Institute of Oriental Studies would consider this activity a pastime unworthy of a serious scholar and would fire him.
Waiting is always bad, especially when you don't know how the waiting will end, but somehow we're always waiting for something. There's no time to even live...
The secret became clear in 1982, when Bulychev was awarded the State Prize for his screenplays for the film "Through Thorns to the Stars" and the animated film "The Mystery of the Third Planet." By that time, the number of published works numbered in the hundreds. The laureate was not fired.
If you find a time machine in the basement, never turn it on without permission from an adult.
In the spring of 1985, it appeared on television screens "Guest from the Future". The series became a hit with children, despite criticism for its "retrofuturism." Due to the modest budget, the future scenes were filmed against the backdrop of the Soviet Union in the 1980s—a far cry from the Hollywood film "Back to the Future," released at the same time. But no one was comparing, and the opportunity to see Zemeckis's film in Russia only became available much later.
Kir Bulychev died in 2003.
