Kir Bulychev - the second magnitude in domestic fiction of the 20th century after the Strugatsky brothers . Several generations of readers grew up on his books, and the first reader's love is durable and does not cool down over the years. Founder of the Great Guslyar (a kind of analogue of the northern city of Solovets with the famous NIICHAVO and its employees) , the godfather of Alice Selezneva , Girls from the Future of the Earth , chronicler of the works and days of Dr. Pavlysh and his friends from the crew of the interplanetary spaceship Segezha Pilot on the Chronos River , Connecting the different coasts of Russia in time … - Kir Bulychev is multidimensional, like life itself, in his literary universe there is a place for a joke, and a caustic, merciless irony, and the wisdom of a scientist and a seer . It has everything in it except boredom. One of the main and perhaps the most striking hypostases of the writer is Bulychiv-storyteller .. This book is the first attempt to collect the best stories of the writer under one cover (with the addition of several stories) that are not included in separate cycles.