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  • MediaDB / «Sword, magic and jaws" Hristo Poshtakov: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2005 / Let's start over. Hristo Poshtakov is a descendant of a noble family, an engineer, scientist, employee of secret biological institutes, fluent in several languages, and at the same time one of the most famous writers in Bulgaria. Listing his titles and awards takes too much time and space, so let’s focus on the main thing - he is deservedly called the “Bulgarian Sheckley.” Graceful, gentle humor, a strict plot line, unexpected images and the undoubted individuality of the narrative made him the country's leading science fiction writer. In Russia, Poshtakov’s stories were published in If, in Gnome and other science fiction newspapers and magazines. But for the first time, the time has come to introduce Russian readers to Poshtakov’s major novel. The plot is traditionally simple and bright at the same time: an impoverished knight, who wants to captivate an arrogant princess with a gift in the form of a dragon’s head, goes to an elderly charlatan magician for help. Together they find the desired reptile, which, meanwhile, is by no means going to part with its own head. And as a result of incorrect witchcraft, the entire unlucky trio ends up in... Hollywood! A world of dreams, silicone, Oscars, spotlights, serious passions and the great magic of cinema... Very soon our heroes remember their distant, abandoned homeland and rush to the dense Middle Ages - to restore their own Hollywood order... So, say, this "Bulgarian Sheckley"? Let's see, let's see...