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Кир Булычев  |  Kir Bulychev

Legal name:  Можейко, Игорь Всеволодович

Canonical name:  Bulychev, Kir

Birth place:  Moscow, Russia

Birth date:  18 October 1934

Death date:  5 September 2003

Language:  Russian

Bibliographic comments:  Mozheyko’s original SF pseudonym, which he came up with in 1967, was “Kir. Bulychev”. “Kir.”

came from his wife’s first name, Kira, and Bulychev was his mother’s maiden name. Later on he dropped the period after

“Kir”, so it became “Kir Bulychev”. In the meantime, some of his publishers, both in the USSR and in other countries,

assumed that “Kir.” was a contraction of “Kirill”; for this reason many 1970s and1980s translations and some Russian

language editions appeared as by “Kirill Bulychev”.

Biographic comments:  

Those Who Survive

1988

<  September 2009, 1st English language edition

Xlibris Corporation / Fossicker Press

ISBN 0-7388-1560-8

Hardcover, 384 pages

$25.00

Notes:

  •  Collection of 'Dr. Pavlysh' stories.

  •  Translated by John H. Costello.

Fiction: Those Who Survive  //  Pass

Collections

Half a Life

1975

<  1978, 1st English language edition

Collier Books

ISBN 0-02-017850-6

Trade paperback, x+142 pages

$2.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon.

  •  Translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson.

Fiction: Half a Life  //  I Was the First to Find You  //  Protest  //  May I Please Speak to Nina?  //  Red Deer, White Deer  

//  Snowmaiden  //  The First Layer of Memory

Gusliar Wonders

1983

<  June 1983, 1st English language edition

Macmillan

ISBN 0-02-518010-X

Hardcover, 228 pages

$16.95

Notes:

  •  Collection of 'Gusliar' stories.

  •  Translated by Roger DeGaris.

  •  'Introduction' is an in-universe fictional introduction, closer to a story than to an essay.

Fiction: Introduction  //  Wunderbaby  //  Don't Make the Wizard Mad  //  Reason in Captivity  //  Help Needed  //  A Mine

of Information  //  Who Can Say?  //  The Personal Touch  //  Flowers  //  Professor Kozarin's Crown  //  If It Hadn't Been

for Mikhail  //  Tale of the Turnip  //  A Difficult Child  //  Vyachik, Don't Touch  //  A Summer Morning  //  The Dedication

of Ananda's Temple

Alice: the Girl from Earth

1965

<  2001, English language edition

Xlibris Corporation / Fossicker Press

ISBN 1-4010-1312-0

Trade paperback, 501 pages

$22.94

Notes:

  •  Collection of 'Alice' stories.

  •  Translated by John H. Costello.

  •  Illustrated by Yevgeniy Migunov.

Fiction: The Little Girl Nothing Ever Happens To  //  Alice's Travels  //  Alice's Birthday  //  The Rusty Field-Marshall