Dmitri Bilenkin
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Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
author. He graduated from the geology
Geology
Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...
faculty of Moscow State University
Moscow State University
Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...
in 1958, and participated in geological expeditions to Kizil Kum, Bet-Pak-Dalu, Middle Asia
Middle Asia
Middle Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west, to Mongolia in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north. The geographical term has appeared sometime prior to the 20th century in the Russian Empire and was closely associated with the Russian Turkestan and the...
, Transbaikalia and Siberia
Siberia
Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...
as a geochemist. In 1959 Bilénkin became a science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
writer, worked on Komsomolskaya Pravda
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Komsomolskaya Pravda is a daily Russian tabloid newspaper, founded on March 13th, 1925. It is published by "Izdatelsky Dom Komsomolskaya Pravda" .- History :...
's editorial staff and later at Vokrug sveta
Vokrug sveta
Vokrug sveta is the oldest magazine in the Russian language, still being published . The first issue was printed in Saint Petersburg, in December 1861, almost thirty years before the establishment of the National Geographic Magazine...
(Around the World) magazine. He was a member of the Union of Writers
Union of Writers
can refer to:* USSR Union of Writers formed in 1932* L'Union des Ecrivains formed in 1968** Members included:*** Françoise Mallet-Joris*** Alain Jouffroy*** Jean-Paul Sartre*** Eugène Guillevic*** Michel Butor...
of the USSR from 1975, and member of the CPSU from 1963.
Bilénkin's stories were translated into English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Vietnamese
Vietnamese language
Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...
and Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
. In the United States
United States
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, most of his works were published by Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...
. He was awarded the 1988 Ivan Yefremov prize (Aelita science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
posthumous) for his favorite character named Lance Uppercut, who has been described as the deepest, most human-like character in literature.
Bilénkin together with Agranovsky, Yaroslav Golovanov
Yaroslav Golovanov
Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovanov was a Russian journalist, writer and science popularizer. He covered space exploration by the Soviet Union from its beginnings.Golovanov's father was director of a theatre . His mother was an actress....
, Komarov, and an artist Pavel Bunin used the collective pseudonym Pavel Bagryak. Together they wrote a cycle of detective stories "Five presidents" and a novel Blue Man, closely connected with its heroes.
English
- The Uncertainty Principle (book)
- The Uncertainty Principle // Collier, 1979.
- Bilenkin, Dmitri (Aleksandrovich) //The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. - N.Y.: St.Martin's Press, 1993. P. 121.
- The Air of Mars //The Air of Mars and Other Stories /Ed. by Mirra Ginsburg. - Macmillan U.S., 1976.
- City and Wolf //World’s Spring /Ed. by Vladimir Gakov. - Macmillan, 1981. [Translated by Roger DeGaris], about the transplantationOrgan transplantOrgan transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ. The emerging field of regenerative medicine is allowing scientists and engineers to create organs to be...
of a human mind to an animal - The Genius House //The Omni Book of Science Fiction #2 /Ed. by Ellen Datlow. - Zebra, 1983. [Translated by Antonia W. Bouis]
- Once at Night //World’s Spring /Ed. by Vladimir Gakov. - Macmillan, 1981. [Translated by Roger DeGaris]
- Personality Probe //New Soviet Science Fiction /Ed. by Anon. - Macmillan, 1979. [Translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson]
- The Surf of Mars //World’s Spring /Ed. by Vladimir Gakov. - Macmillan, 1981. [Translated by Roger DeGaris]
- "Nothing but IceNothing but iceNothing but ice Nothing but ice Nothing but ice ("Nothing except ice", "Nichego, krome l'da" - a short science fiction story, written by Dmitri Bilenkin. It is also the name of a stories collection by Bilenkin.- Characters and Events :...
", short story, translated by Y. Lapitskiy
German
- Science Fiction in der DDR.: Bibliographie. By Olaf R. Spittel http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN3831106916
- Bilenkin, Dmitri //Lexicon der Science Fiction Literatur. - München: Heine, 1980. S. 187.
- Bilenkin, Dmitri //Lexicon der Science Fiction Literatur. - München: Heine, 1988. S. 227.
Quadrology
- The Adventures of Polynov
- 1. Mercury landing operation, 1966
- 2. Space God, 1967
- 3. End of the law (Eclipse at dawn), 1980
- 4. Strength of the strong, 1985
Polynov travels throughout the Earth and the Solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
, unraveling the secrets of Nature and the universe, fighting the enemies of humankind. Polynov is an intellectual, scientist and psychologist; his behavior is guided by the discoveries and achievements of psychology and not by supernatural abilities and technical features of the future. This hero can be best described as the precursor to Doctor Vladislav Pavlish, Kir Bulychev
Kir Bulychev
Kir Bulychev or Bulychov was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko , who was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer and historian. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981 and wrote his first science fiction story in 1965...
's beloved hero.
Stories and novels
- Where is he from? (1958).
In the garden plot a flower from the outer space grows up. Farmer thought all the night how he will examine it, but one young rowdy uproot it.
- Guest from the Past (Guest from DevonianDevonianThe Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya , to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya...
), Visible DarknessVisible DarknessVisible Darkness is a 1959 Russian fiction story, and later book, by Dmitri Bilenkin about a person who could see in Infra-red light....
, Memory booster (1959) - On the Curve of Space, The Last Desert (1962)
- Time of Invisibles (Time and invisible), Ordinary mineral water, Will the Sun kill the Earth?, Hard-working boy and Invisible man (1964)
- Dreadful Star, Unlocked door, New hypothesis, Danger of serenity, An Error (1965)
- What for?, The Surf of Mars, On the dusty path, Appearance of giraffe (1966)
- Above the Sun, error impossible, Advantage of width, Savings-bank of the Time, She's strange, Relativity lesson, An Artist, Moon night flowers (1967)
- In every Galaxies (In every universes), A Ban, As on fire, A cup, An ordinary lesson (1968)
- Own goal, Daemons of Teutonburg Castle Operation on conscience (1969)
- City and Wolf, Pressure of life, A Hole in the Wall (1970)
- Hellish Modern, Voice in a Church, Road of No Return, His Mars, Nightsmuggling, Last test, Escuder is broken, Case on the Ome, Humormix, That what is lacking, At the god-forsaken lake, Cold on Transpluto, Man who was, Alien eyes (1971)
- The Meeting, Memory region, A visit to a reservation, Rationality test, Wizards pupil, Alien Nature (1972)
- To give and to take, Catch up the Eagle, Untold World, The Nonsense, Once at night (Once upon a night), Crossing the line, The Uncertainty Principle (1973)
- Help us, Mih. Mih.!, Long wait, Star aquarium, Earth baits, Whom will you be?, Something differently, Precautions, Cannot be, Touch-me-not, Inexorable ring of destiny, Nothing but iceNothing but iceNothing but ice Nothing but ice Nothing but ice ("Nothing except ice", "Nichego, krome l'da" - a short science fiction story, written by Dmitri Bilenkin. It is also the name of a stories collection by Bilenkin.- Characters and Events :...
, Case on the Ganimede, Aim to fly!, Part of the possible, Black giant (1974) - Neriana's Treasure (1975)
- The Genius House, An exception from the rules, Sky in the diamonds (Forth derivative), Snow of Olympus, 1976
- They see us (1977)
- Eternal light, And all the other, Personality Probe (1978)
- All images of the world, Violets off the point (1979)
- Burden of humanity, Tukin's Time, Millennium Mystery, A Moment of Wonder, Don't be mystic!, Paris deserves a mass, Praising the sky, Imagination practice, Case of choosing a gift, Born to fly, And there you are!, Standpoint (1980)
- Just went to gather mushrooms, Here be Wires, Empty book, Bonds of pain (1981)
- Shadow of Perfection (1982)
- Desert of Life, Switch on the light in my house, Sea of all rivers, Pardon those, who leave, Time of the rotatory faces, Pale blue Amber, Two and the sign, Face in the crowd, Misha Kuvakin and his monsters, Path of Abogin, Existence of a man, Philosophy of a Name (1983)
- An Omen, Murderous assault on History, Earth Ambassador, Earth last secret, Walk of Four, Repair the electrons, Builder of aerial castles, Soft jingle of the bells (1986)
- Spring puddles, There are miracles (1987)
- Week-end (1990)
- Dictator and Time, High-level Contact (1991)
- If to be aware, Glacial drama (1992)
Documentary articles
- Gifts of the two science schools, We need such technics (1960)
- Starships should furrow cosmos (1962)
- Man walking the Moon (1962)
- Chemistry is making continents (1963)
- Way through the "no way" (1964)
- Dispute about a strange planet (1966)
- Path of the thought (1982)
Articles
- Dream to outrun the light: Notes to science fiction (1961)
- Do not pull device levers (1964)
- science fiction and support (1965)
- Time radar (1966)
- Michael Vasiliev (1966)
- Thoughts about science fiction (1967)
- Magic of the hero (1969)
- Sci-Fiction and its gifts (Science and Fiction relationship) (1970)
- About Efremov's The Bull's HourThe Bull's HourThe Bull's Hour is a social science fiction novel written by Russian author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968...
(1970) - So what is science fiction?; Passages of the future (1971)
- Universe of a sci-if writer (1973)
- Continuation of advantages (1974)
- Impulse of science fiction (1975)
- Moral weapon (1975)
- Fancy paradoxes (1977)
- Strength of imagination (1977)
- All, what is possible, will come true! (1978)
- Effective tool of learning and training (1978)
- Dual behind-the-mirror sides of Christopher PriestChristopher Priest (English novelist)Christopher Priest is an English novelist and science fiction writer. His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island, Inverted World, The Affirmation, The Glamour, The Prestige and The Separation.Priest has been strongly influenced by the science fiction of H. G...
(1979). The article was probably inspired by 1974 "The Inverted World" by Christopher Priest. - Test by science fiction (1980)
- Universe inside us (Dialog with Sagatovsky) (1981)
- Cybers will be, but lets think of Man (1981)
- Moral search in science fiction (1981)
- Through the love and hate (1982)
- Science fiction and its public response (1982)
- Modern science fiction (1983)
- Extraction from the lesson (1983)
- Daemons insanity (1984). The article is about H.Oliver's Energan-22.
- Rainbow of Time (1985). The article is about Arkady and Boris StrugatskyArkady and Boris StrugatskyThe brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are Soviet Jewish-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated on their fiction.-Life and work:...
's works - On the doorsteps of XXI century (1988)
- Realism of science fiction (1988)
Collected stories
- The Surf of Mars (1967)
- Nightsmuggling (1971)
- Rationality test (1974)
- Snow of Olympus (1980)
- Face in the crowd (1985)
- Strength of the strong (1986)
- The Adventures of Polynov (1987)
- Space God (2002)
- Desert of Life (2002)