Doctor Pavlysh

Doctor Pavlysh (Russian: Павлыш) is a character in a series of science fiction works of Russian writer Kir Bulychev. Doctor Vladislav Pavlysh is a ship's doctor of the space fleet. In some stories he is the main protagonist, while in others he is a secondary character. He also appears in a number of Bulychev's fanfics.[1][2]

The prototype of doctor Pavlysh was ship's doctor on the bulk carrier ship Segezha[a] on which Bulychev travelled as a journalist in 1967. Doctor Pavlysh and the spaceship Segezha appear in the first novel of the cycle, The Last War (1970).[3][4]

Doctor Pavlysh cycle

Seven major Doctor Pavlysh novels were published in the omnibus volume Доктор Павлыш. Закон для дракона, 2002, ISBN 9785170149568

  • The Last War (Russian: Последняя война, 1970)
    A postapocalyptic novel about a visit to a planet shortly after a nuclear war on it. Bulychev wrote that it was his first science fiction novel[5][6]
  • Великий дух и беглецы (1972)
    Doctor Pavlysh counteracts an aggressive progressorship on a planet with a primitive society.[4]
  • Half a Life, 1973, translated into Engish in the collection under the same title
  • Закон для дракона (A Law for a Dragon, 1975)
  • Садовник в ссылке (1975), later it was reworked into chapter "Проект-18" of Cinderella's White Dress
  • Белое платье Золушки (Cinderella's White Dress, 1980)
    The maitre of the Soviet science fiction Alexander Kazantsev alleged that the novel discredited the Soviet cosmonauts.[7]
  • Тринадцать лет пути [= Тринадцать лет полёта] (1984)
  • Посёлок (The Settlement, 1988, translated as Those Who Survive
  • Пленники долга (2009)
    A short story published posthumously. Bulychev intended it to include into the novel The Settlement, however the plot changed its course and the piece was left unfinished.[4]

The 2016 book Последняя война (The Last War) published by Azbuka-Attikus included the following short stories, which the editors felt to belong to the "world of Pavlysh":[4]

  • «Так начинаются наводнения» (1967)
  • «Хоккей Толи Гусева» (1968)
  • «Пустой дом» (1972)
  • «Красный олень, белый олень» (1973, translated as Red Deer, White Deer in the Half a Life collection)
  • «Снегурочка» (1973, translated as "Snowmaiden" in Half a Life)
  • «Загадка Химеры» (1979)

Fanfics

Short stories from the anthology Искушение чародея ("The Temptation of the Sorcerer"), dedicated to the memory of Kir Bulychev, Eksmo, 2013

  • Отчего люди (2013), Volodymyr Arenev
  • Охота на Белую смерть (2013) Сергей Пальцун
  • Контакт (2013) Олег Пелипейченко
  • Во спасение (2013), Владимир Марышев
  • Далёкое, близкое (2013) Сергей Звонарёв
  • Неприкасаемые (2013) Ника Батхен[8]
  • Планета, на которой не умирают (2013), Игорь Вереснев

Notes

Wikiquote has quotations related to ru:Доктор Павлыш.
  1. ^ Segezha is a Russian town.

References

  1. ^ Кир Булычев «Павлыш»
  2. ^ Доктор Павлыш. Свободные продолжения
  3. ^ БУЛЫЧЕВ Кир (р. 1934), a biography
  4. ^ a b c d Кирилл Владимирович Ратников, Странствие по удивительным мирам Кира Булычева, a preface to the book Кир Булычев, «Последняя война», СПб.: Азбука-Аттикус, 2016
  5. ^ Bulychev's commentary for the 1991 print of the novel by Grifon Publishers, ISBN 5-87282-066-6
  6. ^ Кир Булычев «Последняя война»
  7. ^ Rebuilding Dessa: The. Life and Times of Kir Bulychev, translated from Russian from: Shamil Idiatullin, The kindness ray: Kir Bulychev imagined a lot of things, but knew a lot more, Kommersant, 18 October 2024.
  8. ^ Новый рассказ, из булычевского сборника "Неприкасаемые" the text posted at author's LiveJournal
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