Tired of American space operas? Bored by homegrown, down-to-earth science fiction? Fed up with reading modern fairy tales about wizards and knights? Open this collection and make sure: Russian fantasists haven’t forgotten their main calling. We have been and remain the first in space! Nobody cuts through interstellar space with such reckless energy, and nobody conquers planet after planet and gets caught up in the most incredible adventures—not with such kindness and a smile. Our people in space are fun. Our people in space are awesome!
Contents:
Daniil Kluge
Forty Thousand Princes
Village Pastimes
A Computer Called “Bloody Dog”
How Our Word Will Be Answered
The Incident
My Light, My Looking Glass…
Pavel Kuzmenko
Dawn Facing You
Kir Bulychev
Need a Free Planet
A Regrettable Drifter
First Planet
Second Planet
Third Planet
Fourth Planet
Fifth Planet
Sixth Planet, and the Last
Again the Fourth Planet
Conclusion
Vladimir Khlumov
Kulpov’s Memorandum
Ant Skalandidis
Kasyan Proletkin’s Immaculate Conception
Kasyan Proletkin vs. Alcohol
Andrey Salomatov
Festival of Conception
Boris Shtеrn
Whose Planet?
Customs Inspection
Saving a Person
Who’s There?
Inspection 2
Demons, or Chasing Immortality.
Mademoiselle Belle Amour — the daughter of Inspector Belle Amour
Or the Snake Island, or the Fleet Won’t Fail!
Or we’ll drink the fleet, but we won’t surrender!
The Missing Link, or the Second Death of Inspector Belle Amour.
Fog in a Landing Boot.
A Wife for Cardanval.
Stanislav Gimadeev
The Last Hunt for Stuffie
A Mosquito on the Shoulder
Nikolay Gudanets
The Ark
Mikhail Tyrin
A Statuette
Alexander Gromov
An Ideal Candidate
Alexander Etoev
An Exhibit, or “Our People in Space”
The Eighth Secret of the Universe
Ant Skalandidis
Greetings, Comrade Eros!