Kumbi : Science Fiction Tales and Stories : For Middle and Older Age / Drawings T. Obolonskaya and B. Starodubtseva . — L. Children's Literature, 1968 . — Format 84x108/32. Circulation 50,000 copies. Price 65 k. Gennady Samuilovich Gore published his first story in 1925 in the Komsomol magazine “Young Proletary” .. Over the next 42 years, he wrote many stories, short stories and novels, including fantastic ones. Science fiction Gennady Gore is known both in our country and abroad . This collection includes the previously mourned stories and stories "Kumbi", "Boy", "Extraordinary Story" and "Wanderer and Time" . The writer immerses the imagination of the reader in the atmosphere of that distant future, that past, artistically compared with our days. He puts his characters face to face with unusual, and sometimes mysterious, not only to show other worlds, possible and impossible, but also the behavior of people in unusual conditions. At the same time, the author appreciates in them not only the will and courage, but above all the thought that can defeat time and space.