Adventures of Alice II. "Prisoners of the Asteroid" and other stories

The second book in the BML series about the adventures of Alice Selezneva - the heroine invented by science fiction writer I. V. Mozheiko, who usually appeared under the pseudonym Kir Bulychev - includes nine novellas: "Prisoners of the asteroid," "The Reserve of Fairy Tales," "Ivan Ivanovich the Goat," "The Lilac Ball," "Gai-do," "Prisoners of Yamagiri-maru," "The End of Atlantis," "The City Without Memory" and "The Underground Boat," as well as five stories: "Around the World in Three Hours," "This is not an apple compote," "Second Years," "Is that you, Alice?", "The Beast at the Spring". The drawings in this book are made by a talented artist and innovator of Russian animation E. T. Migunov. T. Migunov.
The origins of modern fiction are rooted not only in the Middle Ages, but deeper - in antiquity. As an independent genre of fiction was formed only in the XIX century, mainly thanks to Jules Verne and Herbert Wells. Later, a branch of science fiction appeared on the fruitful tree of children's literature. One of the pioneers on this new path was our compatriot - orientalist Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko. He is better known to readers thanks to his pseudonym - Kir Bulychev. In the fifties of XX century Stanislav Lem sent his hero Iyon Tykhogo into space, where with this new-found Munchausen there were many adventures. About ten years later, the heroine invented by Mozheiko - a girl from the future Alice Selezneva - also began to travel through space. Such a move proved successful and fruitful. As a result, the vast "Aliciana" appeared. This edition includes novels and stories about Alice, written by Mozheiko from 1984 to 1987. Readers are expected to meet monsters, space pirates, belligerent midgets and mysterious inhabitants of the underwater world. Unlike Jules Verne, Mozheiko does not describe the technology of the future and does not make futuristic predictions like H.G. Wells. His stories about Alice are good children's literature, and this is the secret of its success. The drawings in this second book about Alice's adventures in the BML series are by Yevgeny Tikhonovich Migunov. In 1965 with his illustrations came out Strugatsky's story "Monday Begins on Saturday". In manner and technique they are very similar to his drawings for Bulychev's novels. Their main distinguishing feature is dynamism. Migunov almost always depicts Bulychev's characters in motion, and this is not accidental, because Evgeny Tikhonovich worked for many years in animated movies. In 1939, he entered the art department of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, where he began to study in the workshop of the famous Ivanov-Vano. After graduating from the VGIK, Migunov became not an ordinary artist-cartoonist, and became a true innovator of drawn and puppet movies. His creative developments played an important role in the formation of the modern school of Russian animation. Migunov invented new techniques, patented inventions that helped "revitalize" puppets, offered new directorial techniques. Since 1961, Evgeny Tikhonovich began to cooperate with the magazines "Murzilka", "Veselye Kartinki", "Pioneer", "Crocodile", making for them numerous illustrations. The hand of the master in them is recognized at first sight.