Kir Bulychev

Kir Bulychev in 1997

Kir Bulychev or Bulychov (Russian: Кир Булычёв) (October 18, 1934—September 5, 2003) was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko (И́горь Все́володович Може́йко), who was a Soviet and 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 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 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 about a girl Alice living in the future. Another famous film was the animated feature The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981), for which Bulychev penned the screenplay. Alice's Birthday is a 2009 animated film based on one of his tales. He also wrote many science fiction novels, most known among them are "The Last War" (1970), "Thirteen years` voyage", " Those who survive" (screened as an animation film), "The Dungeon of Witches" (screened), "River Chronos", "Abduction of a sorcerer".

Bulychev also translated numerous American science fiction stories into Russian, and wrote scripts for more than 20 movies.

Bibliography (books published in English)

The dates given are the dates of English editions.

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)

History

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

External links

• Official website
• Full bibliography (in Russian)
• Internet Movie Database page for Kir Bulychev
• Alisa and the Guest from the Future Fan Site (in Russian)
• Kir Bulychev : Tale-Teller and Scientist
• :Obituary

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Name	Bulychev, Kir
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Date of birth	1934
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Date of death	2003
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