Kir Bulychev (Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko) (1934–2003) was a Soviet science fiction writer, literary scholar, playwright, and screenwriter. He became widely known for the series of novellas about fantastic adventures in space, in a fairy-tale country, and on Earth of a young girl—Alisa Seleznyova. Some of the stories were adapted into films.
Alisa Seleznyova, the heroine of the novella “Guest from the Future” (1978), lives at the end of the 21st century in a highly developed society where there is practically no social inequality, war, or disease. One day she manages to travel back to the past century and meet Soviet schoolchildren. Together, they fight space pirates and try to save a unique device that can read people’s and animals’ thoughts at a distance. “Guest from the Future” (the original title of the novella is “One Hundred Years Ahead”) was adapted into a film in 1984, becoming the most famous series among teenagers.