Five Evenings (Short Story Collection)

Kir Bulychev.

The writer behind his gray beard was always hiding a kind, perhaps slightly sad smile. Alice Selezneva, Dr. Pavlysh, the Great Guslar… All of this is the old good Soviet science fiction.

First of all, Kir Bulychev was a master of short form. Most of his stories could be described as bright melancholy. Simple stories—kind and lovely… And although they dress up in fantastic costumes, first and foremost they are about people.

We invite you to spend five wonderful evenings in the company of Kir Bulychev.



Contents:

01 Photograph of an Alien
Scrap metal found in the forest was decided to be used to build a children’s town. And who could have thought that an iron wreck would hold a secret from the future?

Chrono: 1 hour 02 minutes 23 seconds

02 Summer Morning
A man wakes up early in the morning, for some reason goes out of town, and “accidentally” enters one of the little houses… There’s only one thing to understand: why did he do it?..

Chrono: 0 hours 25 minutes 07 seconds

03 The Rooster
Andrey Bessonov, an academician, invented a time machine. His friend, a famous writer, decides to be the machine’s test subject to move forward by about a decade.

Chrono: 0 hours 25 minutes 07 seconds

04 The Eye
A certain scientist with the surname Kotkin develops an artificial eye. And this invention can help not only the blind, but also the sighted—helping them see what, with their own eyes, they simply can’t make out.

Chrono: 0 hours 40 minutes 32 seconds

05 About Fear
A train station. A place where people are forced to wait for days for tickets to long-distance trains. The hero, stuck at the station, meets a strange family that doesn’t care where to go and is strikingly different from the people around them…

Chrono: 0 hours 38 minutes 49 seconds