Shadow Theatre

Kir Bulychev is the second most significant figure in domestic science fiction of the 20th century after the Strugatsky brothers. Several generations of readers grew up on his books, and the first love of a reader is enduring and does... not fade with the years. Founder of the Great Guslyar, godfather of Alice Selezneva, a girl from the future of Earth, chronicler of the works and days of Dr. Pavlysh and his friends from the crew of the interplanetary spaceship "Sigeža", pilot on the river Chronos, which connects different shores of Russia across time... Kir Bulychev is multidimensional, like life itself; in his literary universe, there is room for both playful tricks and biting, merciless irony, as well as the wisdom of a scholar and seer. The action of the novels in the trilogy "Shadow Theatre" takes place in a "shadow" world — a world parallel to the one in which we live, a world where death is absent, and time stands still. The main character of the trilogy with the telling surname Gagarin, an alien foundling discovered on April 12 (hence the surname), along with other scientists from the Expertise Institute, explores this strange world full of dangerous secrets and inhabited not by angels. For all fans of the genre and admirers of Kir Bulychev's work.