Doctor Pavlysh

Doctor Pavlysh () is a character in a series of science fiction works of Russian writer Kir Bulychev. Doctor Vladislav Pavlysh is a ship's doctor of the space fleet. In some stories he is the main protagonist, while in others he is a secondary character. He also appears in a number of Bulychev's fanfics.

The prototype of doctor Pavlysh was ship's doctor on the bulk carrier ship Segezha on which Bulychev travelled as a journalist in 1967. Doctor Pavlysh and the spaceship Segezha appear in the first novel of the cycle, The Last War (1970).

Doctor Pavlysh cycle

Seven major Doctor Pavlysh novels were published in the omnibus volume Доктор Павлыш. Закон для дракона, 2002,

• The Last War (, 1970)
• :A postapocalyptic novel about a visit to a planet shortly after a nuclear war on it. Bulychev wrote that it was his first science fiction novel
• Великий дух и беглецы (1972)
• :Doctor Pavlysh counteracts an aggressive progressorship on a planet with a primitive society.
• Half a Life, 1973, translated into Engish in the collection under the same title
• Закон для дракона (A Law for a Dragon, 1975)
• Садовник в ссылке (1975), later it was reworked into chapter "Проект-18" of Cinderella's White Dress
• Белое платье Золушки (Cinderella's White Dress, 1980)
• :The maitre of the Soviet science fiction Alexander Kazantsev alleged that the novel discredited the Soviet cosmonauts.
• Тринадцать лет пути [= Тринадцать лет полёта] (1984)
• Посёлок (The Settlement, 1988, translated as Those Who Survive
• Пленники долга (2009)
• :A short story published posthumously. Bulychev intended it to include into the novel The Settlement, however the plot changed its course and the piece was left unfinished.

The 2016 book Последняя война (The Last War) published by included the following short stories, which the editors felt to belong to the "world of Pavlysh":

• «Так начинаются наводнения» (1967)
• «Хоккей Толи Гусева» (1968)
• «Пустой дом» (1972)
• «Красный олень, белый олень» (1973, translated as Red Deer, White Deer in the Half a Life collection)
• «Снегурочка» (1973, translated as "Snowmaiden" in Half a Life)
• «Загадка Химеры» (1979)

Fanfics

Short stories from the anthology Искушение чародея ("The Temptation of the Sorcerer"), dedicated to the memory of Kir Bulychev, Eksmo, 2013

• Отчего люди (2013), Volodymyr Arenev
• Охота на Белую смерть (2013) Сергей Пальцун
• Контакт (2013) Олег Пелипейченко
• Во спасение (2013), Владимир Марышев
• Далёкое, близкое (2013) Сергей Звонарёв
• Неприкасаемые (2013) Ника Батхен
• Планета, на которой не умирают (2013), Игорь Вереснев

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