Dmitri Alexandrovich Bilenkin

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

Life

Bilenkin studied geology at Moscow State University and then worked as a geochemist in Siberia and Central Asia in 1958/59 . From 1959 he wrote journalistic and popular science texts for the Komsomolskaya Pravda , then for the magazine Wokrug Sweta ( Вокруг света ), whose science editor he was later. In 1958 he published in the journal Technika - molodjoschi ( - молодёжи Техника his first) science fiction -Kurzgeschichte that many more followed, which he in anthologies and in magazines such as Komsomolskaya Pravda , the Pionerskaya Pravda ( Пионерская правда ) and the Uralski Sledopyt ( Уральский следопыт ) published. From 1967 onwards, several anthologies of his short stories and several popular science books were published (including The Dispute over the Enigmatic Planet , 1969, and The Way of Thinking ).

The main themes of his straightforwardly told stories were initially technological thought experiments and contact with extraterrestrial civilizations; in the 1970s and 1980s he became increasingly concerned with questions of ecology . With the Polynow cycle published from 1967 to 1985 (published collectively in 1987), he also created one of the first Soviet space operas .

In addition, Bilenkin wrote under the common pseudonym Pawel Bagrjak with his fellow writers Pawel Bunin , Valeri Agranowski , Yaroslav Golovanov , Viktor Komarov and Vladimir Gubarew from 1966 to 1972 three detective novels and several short stories. Two of these stories were later filmed: The Renegade ( Отступник , 1987, directed by Valeri Rubinschik ) and Фирма приключений (1991, directed by Igor Vosnesensky ).

After suffering a heart attack in 1983 , Bilenkin struggled with health problems and eventually died during surgery at the age of 53. He is considered one of the most important Soviet science fiction authors. His works have been translated into English, French and German, among others. He was posthumously awarded the Ivan Yefremov Prize at the Aelita Awards in 1988 .

Works

Short story collections:

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

Selected volumes in German and English:

  • Hannelore Menke (Ed.): The intelligence test . People and World, Berlin 1978
  • Theodore Sturgeon (Ed.): The uncertainty principle . Macmillan, New York 1978, ISBN 0-02-510770-4 .
    • German edition (translated from English): The uncertainty principle . Heyne, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-453-31012-8 .
  • Hannelore Menke (Ed.): The invisible weapon . Volk und Welt, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-353-00141-7 .

In anthologies:

  • What wasn't. In: Electronic happiness. Fantastic stories from the Soviet Union. Edited by Reinhard E. Fischer . The New Berlin, Berlin (GDR) 1982, 1988

as Pawel Bagrjak

  • Kidnapped for Mars. A fantastic crime story . Verlag Neues Leben, 1991, German by Günter Jäniche. ISBN 3-355-01025-1

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Alexander Fjodorow: Conversation with Dmitri Bilenkin , in: Sowjetliteratur (38) 1986, issue 12, p. 112
  2. ↑ other authors: Gennadi Gor : The electronic Melmoth; Olga Larionowa : The Defector; Ilja Warschawski : Jane; ders .: The escape; Vladimir Firsov: Your hands are like the wind; Rimma Kasakowa: The Experiment; Viktor Kolupajew: The different colored happiness; Alexander Shitinski: Arsik
personal data
SURNAME Bilenkin, Dmitri Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Биленкин, Дмитрий Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet geochemist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1987
Place of death Moscow