Dmitri Bilenkin

Dmitri Alexandrovich Bilenkin (Russian Дмитрий Александрович Биленкин; born September 21, 1933, Moscow, † July 28, 1987 ) was a Soviet geochemist and writer.

Life

Bilenkin then studied geology at Moscow State University and worked 1958/59 as a geochemist in Siberia and Central Asia. In 1959 he wrote journalistic and popular science texts for the Komsomolskaya Pravda, then for the magazine Wokrug Sweta ( Вокруг света ), the science editor, he was later. In 1958 he published in the journal Technika - molodjoschi ( Техника - молодёжи ) his first science fiction short story, which many more were to follow, which he ( правда Пионерская ) in anthologies and in journals such as the Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Pionerskaya Pravda and the Uralski Sledopyt ( Уральский следопыт ) published. From 1967, several anthologies of his short stories and several popular science books published (including the dispute over the enigmatic planet, 1969, and the way of thinking ).

Main themes of his straight -told stories were initially technological thought experiments and the contact with extraterrestrial civilizations; in the 1970s and 1980s he worked increasingly with issues of ecology. By 1967 published until 1985 Polynow cycle (collected published 1987) he created also one of the first Soviet Space Operas.

In addition Bilenkin wrote under the pseudonym common Pawel Bagrjak with his writer friend Pawel Bunin, Valery Agranowski, Jaroslaw Golovanov, Viktor Komarov and Vladimir Gubaryov 1966-1972 three crime novels and several short stories. Two of these stories were later filmed: The Renegade ( Отступник, 1987 Director: Valery Rubin Tschik ) and Фирма приключений (1991, directed by Igor Voznesensky ).

After a 1983 heart attack suffered Bilenkin struggled with health problems and eventually died at the age of 53 years during a surgical procedure. He is considered one of the most important Soviet science fiction authors. His works have been translated, among others, into English, French and German. Posthumously he was awarded in 1988 with the Aelita Prize ceremony to Ivan Yefremov price.

Works

Short Story Collections:

  • Марсианский прибой: Повести и рассказы ( = Mars surf). Molodaja Gvardija, Moscow 1967/1968
  • Ночь контрабандой ( = Smuggled night). Molodaja Gvardija, Moscow 1971
  • Проверка на разумность ( = intelligence test ). Molodaja Gvardija, Moscow 1974
  • Снега Олимпа ( = snows of Olympus). Molodaja Gvardija, Moscow 1980
  • Лицо в толпе ( = face in the crowd ). Molodaja Gvardija, Moscow 1985
  • Сила сильных ( = The strength of the strong ). " Detskaja Literatura ", Moscow 1986
  • Приключения Полынова ( = The Adventures Polynows ). " Znaniye ", Moscow 1987

Selection of books on German and English:

  • Hannelore Menke (eds.): The intelligence test. Folk and World, Berlin 1978
  • Theodore Sturgeon (eds.): The uncertainty principle. Macmillan, New York 1978, ISBN 0-02-510770-4. German edition ( translated from English ): The uncertainty principle. Heyne, München 1984, ISBN 3-453-31012-8.

In anthologies:

  • What was not. in: The Electronic luck. Great stories from the Soviet Union, ed Reinhard Fischer, The New Berlin, Berlin ( GDR ) 1982 1988

Pawel Bagrjak

  • Kidnapped for Mars. A fantastic crime story. New Life Publishing, 1991, German by Günter Jäniche. ISBN 3-355-01025-1
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