About the book: year / This author's collection of the excellent and popular Russian science fiction author Evgeny Gulyakovsky contains three cycles and individual science fiction novels and stories not included in the cycles dedicated to space. The author began his creative career in literature with prose, writing stories about geologists, historical and adventure works (“Stolen Pledge”, 1962). The first SF publication was “Error” (1964). In 1979, the Ural Pathfinder magazine published Yevgeny Gulyakovsky’s novel “Season of Fogs,” which became one of the first Soviet works in the space action genre and was soon published as a separate edition in “Young Guard.” In 1968, Evgeny Gulyakovsky graduated from the Higher Screenwriting Courses; The films “Above the Desert Sky” and “Mountain Station” were produced based on his scripts. Themes of SF works by Gulyakovsky, an active representative of the so-called. “Young Guard school” - do not go beyond the standard set: the heroism of space exploration, contact, meeting with exotic representatives of extraterrestrial life; sometimes thoughtless adventures are colored by specific ideological “overtones” characteristic of the specified “school”. In 1998, Evgeny Gulyakovsky was awarded the Aelita Prize for his “contribution to Russian science fiction” Contents: CAPTURE STRATEGY: 1. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Capture Strategy 2. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Planet for Contact 3. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Vesta 4. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Forbidden Zone 5. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Atlanteans hold the sky STORIES AND NOVELS NOT INCLUDED IN THE CYCLES: 1. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Lost among the stars 2. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Red shift 3. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Ambassador to the restricted zone 4. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Shadow of the Earth 5. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: The rustle of the surf PROMETHEUS: 1-3. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Prometheus [trilogy] EXPANSION:1. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Sentinels of the Universe 2. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Lady of Dreams 3. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: The Other Side of Time 4. Evgeny Gulyakovsky: Games of the Sixth Circle