“A Million Adventures” is Kir Bulychev’s children’s science-fiction novel from the “Alice’s Adventures” cycle. It consists of four parts—novellas—that are only loosely connected with each other.
The New Adventures of Hercules
The novella is made up of several stories about the antics of the Pithecanthropus Hercules, brought from prehistoric Java to Moscow and living at the biological station on Gogolevsky Boulevard.
The Foreign Princess
Alice, along with her circle of young naturalists, flies on a “star liner” to the planet Penelope. In the city of Jangle-More-or-Less, Pashka Geraskin manages to find a dealer of adventures—Fuuuksa—who sends him to knightly medieval times.
Holidays on Penelope
Young biologists meet an odd adventurer, a drifter named the Savage, who lives among living nature. For Pashka, the mysterious Savage quickly becomes a friend and a hero. Meanwhile, the biologists begin to discover that animals in the area are dying. Moreover: on the planet that had previously been considered completely safe, dangerous predators started appearing; earthquakes and other disasters occur.
The Pirate Mama’s Box
The final part of the novel. Alice says goodbye to her friends: they fly to Earth, and she goes to the planet Brastak, where an old friend, the archaeologist Rrrrr, invited her. Uninvited, Pashka follows her—disguised for camouflage as an hysterical tourist girl from the planet Pilageya.