Kir Bulychov

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Kir Bulychov : biography

October 18, 1934 – September 5, 2003

Kir Bulychov or Bulychev () (October 18, 1934 – September 5, 2003) was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko (И́горь Все́володович Може́йко), a Soviet Russian science fiction writer and historian. His magnum opus is a children’s science fiction series Alisa Selezneva, although most of his books are adult-oriented.

Biography

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 Veliky Gusliar, a Russian town that attracts all kinds of aliens and supernatural beings. This fictional city is based on a real Veliky Ustyug city. Another well known series of Bulychov’s stories are young adult stories about Alisa Selezneva, a young girl from the future. A number of them were made into film, animation and video game. He also wrote many science fiction novels, most known among them are "The Last War" (1970), "Thirteen years of travel", "Those who survive" (filmed as the animated film Pereval), "The Witches Cave" (filmed), "River Chronos", "Abduction of a Sorcerer".

Bulychov also translated numerous American science fiction stories into Russian, and wrote scripts for more than 20 movies. Apart from fiction, he wrote a biography of Aung San.

Bibliography (books published in English)

The dates given are the dates of English editions.

Fiction

  • Alice: The Girl from Earth (1965), ISBN 1401013112 Publisher: Xlibris Corp (July 2002)
  • Half a Life (1977)
  • Gusliar Wonders (1983)
  • Earth and Elsewhere (1985)
  • Abduction of a Sorcerer (1989)
  • Those Who Survive (2000)

History

  • 1185 A.D. (1989)
  • South-East Asia: Unity in Diversity. Ahmedabad: Allied (with Gennadi Chufrin) (1989).

Film adaptations

  • :Category:Films based on works by Kir Bulychov