Stories about Doctor Pavlysh are traditional space fiction: long-term flights to unknown stars, adventures on mysterious planets, encounters with other life. The novel “The Village” is a “Robinsonade”, the story of those who survived on a distant planet, and those who came to their aid. In the story “Thirteen Years of Journey,” the heroes are faced with a choice: whether to spend years of their lives reaching Alpha Cygnus or turn back. At the beginning of the story “The Great Spirit and the Runaways,” the ship is wrecked, and the only survivor meets the primitive aliens. The story “Cinderella’s White Dress” is about love. In the worlds of Kir Bulychev, life is unusual, and we would like to see his heroes from the future in our present.