Flying fairy tales. Krapivin V.

In the sky of domestic science fiction, the planet Vladislav Krapivin is circling in a special orbit. According to special initially, from the beginning of the 1960s, when the writer Krapivin entered the circle of our reading and made a name in the literature.

However, the name is for us readers. For those who distributed the title and built writers on the rank, reader recognition is not the law. Kapivin and passed forever in the department of children's literature. Outwardly, it is clear. The main characters of the Krapivin books are boys. But the author put them into swimming along the troubled seas of everyday life, not making them a concess and a discount at a boyish age. His path, and everyone has it, the hero had to go through himself. Preserving yourself. Because such qualities as honor, courage, justice never lose their brilliance, like a sword in a musketeer hand.

The theme of flight is especially loved by readers, and even more so - readers of science fiction. Because this is one of the most successful and fertile literary topics. Such first-class masters as Clive S. Lewis, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Ray Bradbury, Alexander Belyaev, left their trail in the “celestial” literature. With full right to this glorious company, Vladislav Krapivin can also be attributed. The heroes of his novels, stories and stories, although they live on Earth, although they share along with everyone the hardships of a difficult life, but their eyes are directed to the sky. Because where, if not in the sky, our treasures are hidden.

The collection includes a full cycle of the famous “Flying Tales”, as well as the novel “The Guardian of the Srusy Islands”, which themes thematically adjacent to this cycle.