Dmitri Bilenkin


Dmítri Aleksándrovitch Bilénkin ; September 21, 1933 - July 28, 1987, was a Soviet science fiction author.

Biography

He graduated from the geology faculty of Moscow State University in 1958, and participated in geological expeditions to Kizil Kum, Betpak-Dala, Middle Asia, Transbaikalia and Siberia as a geochemist. In 1959 Bilénkin became a science fiction writer, worked on Komsomolskaya Pravda's editorial staff and later at Vokrug sveta magazine. He was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR from 1975, and member of the CPSU from 1963.
Bilénkin's stories were translated into English, German, Polish, French, Vietnamese and Japanese. In the United States, most of his works were published by Macmillan Publishers. He was awarded the 1988 Ivan Yefremov prize 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, 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.

Works

English

Quadrology

  1. Mercury landing operation, 1966
  2. Space God, 1967
  3. End of the law , 1980
  4. Strength of the strong, 1985
Polynov travels throughout the Earth and the Solar system, 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 Bulychov's beloved hero.

Stories and novels

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.