The Abduction of a Wizard

Kir Bulychev is the second most prominent figure in Russian science fiction of the 20th century after the Strugatsky brothers. Several generations of readers have grown up on his books, and the first love of reading is enduring and does not fade with time. The founder of the Great Guslyar (a peculiar analogue of the northern town of Solovets with its famous NIICHAVO and its employees), the godfather of Alice Selezneva, a girl from the future of Earth, the chronicler of the labors and days of Doctor Pavlysh and his friends from the crew of the interplanetary starship «Segizha», a pilot on the river Chronos, which connects different shores of Russia in time... Kir Bulychev is multidimensional like life itself, in his literary universe there is room for both playful pranks and biting, merciless irony, as well as the wisdom of a scholar and seer. It contains everything except boredom. One of the main and perhaps the most vivid incarnations of the writer is Bulychev the storyteller. In the book «The Abduction of a Wizard», the best stories and novellas of the writer, which do not belong to separate cycles, are collected under one cover in maximum volume.