Yevgeny Veltistov

Yevgeny Serafimovich Veltistov (Russian:Евге́ний Серафи́мович Велти́стов) (1934–1989) was a Soviet writer and screenwriter. He was a Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR.

Biography Born on 21 July 1934, in Moscow, Veltistov graduated from the Faculty of Journalism, worked in the press, at the Central Committee of the CPSU. He was first published in the late 1950s. Veltistov was a member of the Writers' Union (1966). His first science-fiction published novel was The Adventures of the bottom of the sea (1960).

Veltistov is famous for being the lead author of a Soviet children's science fiction series about the boy-robot Electronic, who is a copy of student Syroezhkin. Novels about Electronic include "Electronic - the Boy from the Suitcase" (1964), "Ressi - elusive friend " (1970, 1971), "Victor of the Impossible" (1975), and "The New Adventures of Electronic" (1984, rerelease - 1988). The first two novels received a popular telefilm adaptation.

Among Veltistov's other works related to science fiction, is the story of a dead end, which grants fantastic "Wish fulfillment", "Gum-Gum", 1970 (filmed in 1985), as well as the collection of stories, fairy tales - "A million and a day Holiday "(1979)," Class and extracurricular adventures extraordinary graders "(1985).

Among adult science fiction works are the story of the near future - "Sip of the Sun, Notes of programmer Snegova March "(1967), which tells of the arrival of the Solar System alien computer controlled spaceship, and the novel The Nocturne emptiness (1988), describing the conspiracy of the imperialists that threaten humanity with climate war, previously published along with the story in the previous one volume - a collection of Nocturne emptiness. A breath of the Sun (1982).