Alexander Lavrentjewitsch Kolpakow
Alexander Lavrentjewitsch Kolpakow ( Russian Алекса́ндр Лавре́нтьевич Колпако́в ; born February 15, 1922 in Matschecha , Kikwidsenski district , Volgograd Oblast ; died 1995 ) was a Russian writer.
Life
Kolpakov served in the Soviet army from 1940 and took part in World War II. From 1944 he attended an officers' school and was then a career officer until 1956. He then became a chemical engineer and finally a freelance writer.
He is best known through the novel Гриада (1959, “The Triad”), which was later accused of improperly borrowing from HG Wells and taking over elements of the Space Opera . His stories have been translated into numerous languages, including English, German, French and Japanese, as well as a number of Eastern European languages.
In 1995 he disappeared on the journey from Ashgabat to Moscow.
bibliography
- Novels
- Гриада (1959)
- Collections
- Море Мечты (1964)
- Нетленный Луч (1971)
- stories
- Альфа Эридана [= Один] (1959)
- English: Flight to Alpha Eridani. In: Lothar Grünewald (Ed.): Flight to Alpha Eridani. Culture and Progress, 1970.
- Цена миллисекунды (1961)
- Игла Мэсона (1974, as Лен Кошевой)
- Угра (1986)
- Short stories
- На Черных землях (1949, as В. Перцев)
- Голубая Цефеида (1960)
- Пришелец (1960)
- Нейтринный импульс (1962)
- Око далёкого мира (1962)
- И возгорится солнце (1963)
- Море Мечты (1964)
- Последний лемур (1964, as В. Глухов)
- Спонтанная телепатия (1965, as В. Перцев)
- Континуум два зет (1966)
- Отступившие в океан [= Самуры; Пришельцы из Гондваны] (1967, as А. Мегалов)
- Пленники космоса (1967, as А. Перцев)
- Если это случится… [= Нетленный Луч] (1968)
- За орбитой Плутона (1971)
- Там, за морем Мрака [= О чем молчат камни] (1971)
- Формула притяжения (1971)
- Последняя встреча (1975)
- Букет (1976)
- Время - это кванты света (1977)
- Великая река (1978)
- Теменигура (1980)
- Вылет на рассвете (1981)
- В стране тумана и дождя (1984)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 235.
Web links
- Alexander Lavrentjewitsch Kolpakow in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Александр Колпаков on FantLab.ru (Russian, accessed April 5, 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kolpakow, Alexander Lavrentjewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Колпако́в, Алекса́ндр Лавре́нтьевич (Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Machecha , Kikvidsensky Raion , Volgograd Oblast |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |