Subjective Dictionary of Science Fiction

Is Pinocchio familiar with the Three Laws of Robotics? Did Wellssian Martians fly into the Great Guslyar? What do Harry Potter and Winston Churchill have in common? Why do aliens have such silly names? What did Arthur Clarke get cursed for in the Central Committee of the Komsomol? This is just a small part of the questions to which the author of the Subjective Dictionary of Science Fiction provides the most truthful answers. Among the characters of the dictionary entries are Ahasfer and Karlsson, 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…

There have been no such dictionaries before: for Roman Arbitman - a literary critic, film critic, television series specialist, and also a science fiction writer - world science fiction has long ceased to be an object of study and has become a familiar communal apartment that he knows from the inside and can tell about many tenants in such a wa-a-a-y… The characters of science fiction and their creators are his relatives, neighbors, friends, or enemies, about whom he writes both with delight and respectful breath, and with anger and bias, sometimes getting personal to the point of physical confrontation. In general, everything as is customary among close relatives.
Those who know little about science fiction will find it interesting to observe from the sidelines and learn a lot of new things. Well, those who know science fiction well will hardly hold back their desire to argue with the author of the book.