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Boris Fedorovich Ivanov
Борис Иванов
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25 June 1949 - 28 February 2005
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[i]In full: Boris Fedorovich Ivanov[/i]
[i] Born in 1949[/i]
[i]Resides in Voronezh, Russia[/i]
Boris Ivanov began to be published in the late 80s, “starting” with a short story “The Journey of the White Mouse” and a mini-thriller “Report”, immediately noticed by fans of fiction, and criticism. His novel “One to One” became one of the winners of the prestigious online contest “Art Tenet”.
In his novels and novels, many of which are written “in a duet” with Yuri Shcherbatykh, Ivanov as if undertook
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[i]In full: Boris Fedorovich Ivanov[/i]
[i] Born in 1949[/i]
[i]Resides in Voronezh, Russia[/i]
Boris Ivanov began to be published in the late 80s, “starting” with a short story “The Journey of the White Mouse” and a mini-thriller “Report”, immediately noticed by fans of fiction, and criticism. His novel “One to One” became one of the winners of the prestigious online contest “Art Tenet”.
In his novels and novels, many of which are written “in a duet” with Yuri Shcherbatykh, Ivanov as if undertook to prove that the “classical”, “solid” SF, the basis of which is, in his words, the “magic triad”: a mystery + a strong plot + a dream, is alive and does not think to yield its positions to either “new waves” or the latest intellectual delights. However, the boundaries of the genre were not for Ivanov rubicon, “which will not cross”: bizarrely mixed fantasy and detective in the 1996 “Residence of Monsters”, and followed by “Thirteenth Doge Ebiss-Ile” – nothing but one of the first in the domestic SF successful “immersion in virtuality”. The writer is not afraid to wander through “foreign territories”, “no man’s land” and returns from such campaigns with good luck.
But the closest to Ivanov’s fiction is ancient as the world and the equally inexhaustible adjacent expanses of detective and roguish novel, which never lose their attractiveness for the reader.
Probably, all this - and fiction, and detective, and adventure - a reflection of some aspect of the personal fate of the author - a biologist. And this fate seemed to set out to make him witness as many acts of tragicomedy of our century as possible: for example, she sent him to visit friends in Eastern Europe in August 68, when tracks of Soviet tanks rolled along its roads, and he came to teach at the university of a small African country exactly when, after twenty years of “progressive” dictatorship, the local army decided to change the political course through a military coup. And of course, August 91 and October 93 he had to meet seconded to Whitestone.
In fiction, Boris Ivanov is present not only as a “generator of texts”. He presides in the Voronezh creative club “Constellation” together with Vasily Shchepetnev and young science fiction writers from different parts of the CIS publishes an electronic “fantastic magazine” “RARA AVIS” (“Rare bird”), whose address on the Internet () is well known to fans of “network fiction”. And before that there was also “Oberon” – “fanzin”, in its own way, covering the life of modern “fandom”. Ivanov often writes about fiction and in the “big press”. His articles appeared in newspapers and magazines, including the American Locus, the German Turtles of Babylon, and the French Yellow Submarine.
But Boris Ivanov does not seek to become a critic, a politician from literature, or a prophet.
“While I write about what will or may happen, I am not a prophet,” he said. - I'm a fucking prophet. I'm just a charmer. I'm standing on the corner and winding up an old tool so that you don't feel so bad walking through the current bad weather. I have a parrot on my shoulder. He pulls tickets with your destiny out of the box. You want me to guess?
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[i]Last updated: 26-08-2004[/i]