The Predictor of the Past

Kir Bulychev is the second greatest figure in domestic science fiction of the XX century after the Strugatsky brothers. Several generations of readers have grown up on his books, and first literary love is long-lasting and does not fade over... the years. Founder of the Great Guslyar, godfather of Alice Selezneva, a girl from the future of Earth, chronicler of the labors and days of Dr. Pavlysh and his friends from the crew of the interplanetary spaceship "Sigezha," a pilot on the river Chronos, connecting different shores of Russia in time, Kir Bulychev is multidimensional, like life itself; in his literary universe, there is room for playful jokes, sharp, relentless irony, and the wisdom of a scholar and a seer.
The book concludes the cycle of Kir Bulychev's works about the agent of Intergalactic Police Kora Orvat, a girl found as an infant on one of the remote planets of the Galaxy and raised on the Children's Island in a top-secret research boarding school-orphanage for other lost orphans like her.
Nowhere does the inspector of InterPol's duty take her.
Today, Kora Orvat on the planet New Helvetia saves Earthlings from a madman who has come to power, hating everything earthly ("The Predictor of the Past"). Tomorrow she will search for the once lost on our planet Mirror of Evil, Ring of Threat, and Crown of Power, priceless relics of aliens ("Mirror of Evil"). Another time, Kora is already in China, in the Taklamakan Desert, uncovering the mystery of the disappearance of the inventor of the gravitational engine ("The Disappearance of Professor Lu Fu"). Sometimes it even gets ridiculous when Kora, to find a murderer, has to inhabit the body of an alien chicken that also lays eggs ("In a Chicken's Skin"). What can you do? Duty!