“The Last War” is the first story of Doctor Pavlysh, where he, as part of the crew of the ship “Segezha”, finds himself on a planet that has recently experienced a nuclear war. “The Great Guslyar” - stories and stories about the inhabitants of a quiet provincial Russian town who constantly you have to deal either with aliens, or with the consequences of scientific discoveries and inventions, or simply with fairy-tale and mythical creatures. “Dungeon of the Witches” - the adventures of Cosmoflot agent Andrei Bruce, who ended up on a planet where an unknown highly developed civilization launched accelerated evolution. The most striking works from the most famous cycles of Kir Bulychev.