Hunting for the "big bear". Ivanov A.V.

Alexey Ivanov - writer, screenwriter and culturalist. He works in a wide variety of literary formats. “The geographer drank the globe”, “Fornication and Mudo”, “Dormitory-on-Blood” and “Nonasty”-modern urban prose. The Gold of the Riot and the Heart of Parma are modernist historical novels. "Psothelovtsy" and "community" are intellectual thrillers. The Minor -Zavodsky Civilization, the Ridge of Russia and “See the Russian Riot” - large -scale photo books about the national and non -cell history.

Three Tales of Alexei Ivanov, written at the expound of the Soviet Union, are still belonging to great Soviet science fiction. Nevertheless, they are a little more than Soviet science fiction. It is tougher in theory, more risky in the surroundings, freer in the fiction. But their sincere faith in man and humanity - they are from there, from the Golden Age.

Hunting for a "big bear". A small gang of cosmic pirates attacks a starship passing by. Brage is quite successful, but noble avengers are linked after the pirates - children from planet Earth. Pirates are harmless, and children are merciless. And it turns out the militant on the contrary: first fun, then scary.

Earth-sorting. The sleepy life of the village of Sorting stretches as usual: work at the station, garden, shop, moonshine. And suddenly it turns out that every second resident of the sorting is actually an alien! There is a galactic war, aliens deftly disguise themselves as earthlings, and any philistine trouble is actually a military action of the aliens. This is no longer a militant, but a comedy.

ships and a galaxy. And this story is written in the rare genre of “Cosmic Opera”. The action is scattered on the entire Milky Way, the stars burn, bizarre ships rush, the cosmos are teeming with terrible monsters, the history of the galaxy is full of grandiose confrontations and battles, and the secrets of the dead ancient civilizations flicker through the space.