About the book: 2017 / Stories about Doctor Pavlysh - traditional space science fiction: long-term flights to unknown stars, adventures on mysterious planets, encounters with other life. The novel "The Village" is a "Robinsonade", the story of those who survived on a distant planet, and those who came to their aid. In the story "Thirteen Years' Journey" the heroes are faced with a choice: whether to spend years of their lives reaching Alpha Cygnus or turn back. At the beginning of the story “The Great Spirit and the Runaways,” the ship is wrecked, and the only survivor meets primitive aliens. The story “Cinderella’s White Dress” is about love. In the worlds of Kir Bulychev, life is unusual, and we would like to see his heroes from the future in our present.