In the depths of the great crystal. 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 (readers of the older generation remembered an emotional explosion after reading the little story “I am going to meet my brother” in the collection “Fantasy 1963”). 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 Krapivin's 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. Yes, there are wise commanders, but the commanders are only directing. His path, and everyone has it, the hero had to go through himself. Preserving yourself. Because such qualities as honor, courage, justice, never lose brilliance, like a sword in a musketeer hand. The cycle about the great crystal in the work of Vladislav Krapivin occupies a special place.

works included in the cycle, written at different times, but connected by a single thought, is not just prose, it is a philosophy of feat. This is the philosophy of life, such as it must be. Fantastic, and nothing else.