Subjective Dictionary of Fantasy

Is Pinocchio familiar with the Three Laws of Robotics? Did the Wellsian Martians fly into the Great Guslyar? What do Harry Potter and Winston Churchill have in common? Why do aliens have such silly names? Why was Arthur Clarke cursed by the Central Committee of the Komsomol? This is just a small part of the questions to which the author of the Subjective Dictionary of Fantasy provides the most truthful answers. Among the characters in the dictionary entries are Ahasver and Carlson, Mickey Mouse and The Matrix, Aelita and Frankenstein, Conan the Barbarian and Polygraph Polygraphovich Sharikov, and many others - celebrities and heroes of the invisible front…

Such dictionaries did not exist before: for Roman Arbitman - a literary scholar, film critic, television series specialist, and also a science fiction writer - world fantasy has long ceased to be an object of study and has become a familiar communal apartment that he knows inside out and can tell about many of its tenants… The characters of fantasy and their creators are his relatives, neighbors, friends, or enemies, whom he writes about either with admiration and respectful breath or with anger and bias, sometimes getting personal to the point of borderline physicality. In general, everything is as is customary among close relatives.
Those who know little about fantasy will find it interesting to observe from the outside and learn a lot of new things. Well, those who are well-acquainted with fantasy will hardly resist the urge to argue with the author of the book.