About the book: 2021 / This publication is the most complete collection of science fiction, detective and adventure works by the fiction writer and science fiction writer S. Ya. Solomin to date (Stechkina, 1864–1913). The first volume of the collection includes the science fiction stories “The Bell Jar: The Founding and Death of the Polar Empire” and “The Extraordinary Adventures of Oscar Daybn and Kondraty Nevesely”, as well as the story “The Devil’s Blacksmith” related to the latter story».