Best Stories

The audiobook includes the most well-known stories by Kir Bulychev that are not part of any specific cycles. “Breakdown on the Line” (The house was put on record and taken off record several times as a historical monument—yet it turned out that the house had a different kind of value…), “Share It With Me…” (It’s impossible to stay on a planet where, telepathically, people can share your good mood with you, take your pain away—but you can’t give them the same in return…), “I Found You First!” (Carrying out archaeological work on this planet is madness…), “The Crown of Professor Kozarin” (When every day looks like the last, life seems to pass you by—yet suddenly a miracle happens…), “Can I Ask for Nina?” (Vadim called Nina several times before he realized he’d been wrong not only about the number, but about the time too…), “A Difficult Child” (On Earth, several families took in alien children for raising…), “A Summer Morning” (A man wakes up early, drives out of town, and “accidentally” enters one of the little houses… Why did he do it?..), “The Eye” (A certain scientist develops an artificial eye…), “V’yachik, Don’t Move Things!” (A mother controls everything in Vyacheslav’s life and refuses to notice the obvious—his son’s paranormal abilities have opened up…), “A Closet of Otherworldly Beauty” (Tamara persuades Liza to take an old wardrobe at a pawn shop. At first glance, there’s nothing special about it…), “The ‘200’ Anniversary” (Two hundred years of the experiment—there has never been such a thing in Earth’s history and there won’t be…), “Olya N.’s Report” (On Earth, the Lights began to appear—either stationary ball lightning or stable plasma…).