The Assassination of Theseus
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The Assassination of Theseus
19.99 €
Kir Bulychev is the second largest figure in Russian science fiction of the 20th century after the Strugatsky brothers. Several generations of readers grew up on his books, and the first reader's love is long-lasting and does not cool over the years. The founder of the Great Guslar, the godfather of Alisa Selezneva, a girl from the future of the Earth, the chronicler of the works and days of Doctor Pavlysh and his friends from the crew of the interplanetary starship "Segezha", a pilot on the Chronos River, connecting the different banks of Russia in time - Kir Bulychev is multidimensional, like life itself, in his literary universe there is a place for a humorous prank, and caustic, merciless irony, and the wisdom of a scientist and seer. The book opens a series of works by Kir Bulychev about the InterGalactic Police agent Cora Orvat, a girl found as a baby on one of the remote planets of the Galaxy and raised on Children's Island in a top-secret research boarding school-orphanage for the same lost orphans as she.
Children's Island
... There is an emergency at the island shelter. Two young people in love with each other disappear. Is this an escape or a kidnapping? Commissioner Milodar, commander of the InterGalactic Police forces in the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth, conducts an investigation and during the course of it meets one of the students, Cora Orvat, a friend of the missing girl. And if not for her help, it is unknown what unpredictable results InterGalactic Police's actions would have led to.
Halfway off the cliff
... In addition to our Earth, there is Earth-2, also revolving around the Sun, but... in a parallel world. And in a certain place in Crimea there is a transition point from our planet to its strange double. Who needed this window, who is its creator and for what purposes does it serve? All this is to be found out by Kora Orvat, the best of the best agents of the InterGalactic Police.
Attempt on Theseus
... Could Kora have thought that one day she would become a bodyguard. And not just anyone, but the crown prince of a distant alien kingdom. Death follows Prince Gustav on his heels, assassination attempt follows assassination attempt. To escape from danger, the prince, disguised as Theseus, plunges into virtual reality and hides in Ancient Greece among its crazy gods and very real monsters. Kora Orvat secretly accompanies her ward from the prince.
Children's Island
... There is an emergency at the island shelter. Two young people in love with each other disappear. Is this an escape or a kidnapping? Commissioner Milodar, commander of the InterGalactic Police forces in the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth, conducts an investigation and during the course of it meets one of the students, Cora Orvat, a friend of the missing girl. And if not for her help, it is unknown what unpredictable results InterGalactic Police's actions would have led to.
Halfway off the cliff
... In addition to our Earth, there is Earth-2, also revolving around the Sun, but... in a parallel world. And in a certain place in Crimea there is a transition point from our planet to its strange double. Who needed this window, who is its creator and for what purposes does it serve? All this is to be found out by Kora Orvat, the best of the best agents of the InterGalactic Police.
Attempt on Theseus
... Could Kora have thought that one day she would become a bodyguard. And not just anyone, but the crown prince of a distant alien kingdom. Death follows Prince Gustav on his heels, assassination attempt follows assassination attempt. To escape from danger, the prince, disguised as Theseus, plunges into virtual reality and hides in Ancient Greece among its crazy gods and very real monsters. Kora Orvat secretly accompanies her ward from the prince.
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