About the book: 1986 / The monograph is devoted to the study of the connections between the poetics of the most popular genre of modern literature and the tradition of one of the ancient directions of oral folk art. Theoretical and methodological aspects of the problem, the use of folklore and fairy-tale principles of depicting man and the world in science fiction are considered. A specific analysis is given of the largest works of Soviet fiction - V. A. Obruchev, A. N. Tolstoy, I. A. Efremov, brothers A. and B. Strugatsky. For literary scholars and folklorists, critics and teachers.