Pavel Shumilov is a famous domestic science fiction writer. He wrote many popular novels. A wide circle of readers is known under the pseudonym Pavel Shumil.
Biography of a science fiction writer
Pavel Shumilov was born in 1957. He was born in Leningrad. The autobiography begins as follows: "In 1964 he graduated from kindergarten." He further says that he studied unevenly at school. At the end of elementary school, he was almost a dummy. In addition, many hooligans, because of which they even got "unsatisfactory" in physical education for six months.
Everything dramatically changed in the fifth grade. Studying interested him, he became almost an excellent student. Already in the sixth grade he decided what subjects he was primarily interested in. He studied them closely, and the rest - on the residual principle.
As a result, he graduated from school without triples in the certificate. True, there were only one five. In physical education.
In 1974, Pavel Shumilov entered the Electrotechnical Institute, popularly known as LETI. He diligently attended seminars, practical and laboratory classes. But at lectures appeared extremely rarely. Moreover, he spent most of his free time at the institute - at the department of computer engineering.
In his student years he participated in the construction brigade movement. Three times went to all-Union construction sites. Once - nearby, in the Leningrad region. And twice to the other end of the country - in Komi.
He graduated from the university with a degree in Electronic Computers.
Labor career
After the institute, Pavel Shumilov went to work in a research and development computer center, which was located at the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.
His responsibilities included maintaining computers of all types and classes. Often many of them had to be improved and improved. Useful and programming skills. He was engaged in laying networks. In fact, at work, he combined several specialties at once - a development engineer, a systems analyst, an operational engineer.
For many machines, Pavel Shumilov personally wrote tests and applications. The biography, however, states that his life was not entirely devoted to this work. Since childhood, our hero became interested in science fiction, reading dozens of books in this genre.
The first samples of the pen began in 1994. At that time he was 37 years old.
First publications
Pavel Shumilov, all of whose books are written in the genre of fiction, was first published only five years after the first literary experiments. In 1999, one of the largest domestic private publishing houses in Moscow, Tsentrpoligraf, released his series entitled "The Word of the Dragon."
His specialization is rigorous science fiction. He does not deviate from this genre. Always sought to polish his talent, learning from more famous masters. For this, since 1998 he was a full member of the seminar of the famous Soviet science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky. Until the close of the project.
Today lives in St. Petersburg.
Bibliography of the author
Pavel Shumilov (all books in the order of this author are listed in our article) made his debut with the series "The Word of the Dragon." In the publishing house "Centerpolygraph" she came out in a larger series "Fantasy-Fantasy." It included the novels "The Lone Dragon", "Dragon of the Kong Castle", "Become a Dragon" and "Caravan of the Dead".
Many of his works were published in separate editions. Typically in science fiction magazines. In 2007, in the St. Petersburg collection "Theory of Surprise" ("Lenizdat"), a story was published from the series "Cruel Tales" entitled "Tale No. 1. Master Lomaster."
In 2009, the publishing house "ABC Classic" in the collection "Anthology of Fiction" left the story from the same cycle. It was called "Tale number 4. Take me across the Maidan."
Soon the same story was published in the journal Fantastic Literary Supplement, issue 3. In 2005, in the journal Midday, XXI Century, the publication of which was supervised by Boris Strugatsky, another story from the same cycle was printed - “To the question on gender equality. " The last known publication of the author dates back to 2008. In the third issue of the magazine "Young Technician" appeared his science fiction story "On the issue of long life."
Internet publications
Such a small number of prints should not mislead anyone. The fact is that since the 90s, Shumilov began to actively publish on the Internet.
In electronic form, his entire cycle, entitled "The Word of the Dragon," was released. It included the novels The Last Lord, The Word of the Dragon, Kong Castle Dragon, Eden Shards, Go, Catch a Star, Long Forgotten Planet, Become a Dragon, Adam and Eve - 2 , "Caravan of the Dead", "Duty to the View," as well as the story "On the Meaning of Life." The works were written from 1995 to 1998.
The second cycle was called "Fair Wind". It included The Commander’s House, Rescuers, Campfire Tales, and Stelsi Short Flights.
The already mentioned series “Cruel Tales” consisted of the novels “Percentage of Correspondence”, “Must Love”, “Take Me Through the Maidan”, the novel “On the Nature of Family Happiness” and the stories “Loves - Doesn't Love”, “Master Lomaster” , "On the issue of gender equality," "Cat's House."
For the collection “The Bad crew”, the story “Logger“ Cutty Snark ”and the story“ On the issue of dragon hunting ”were written.
The last cycle known to readers is called the Contact Window. It was started in 2002 with the story "On the issue of long life." In 2015, the novels “Ksapa the Hooligan”, “This World was not invented by us,” and the novel “Three, Four, Five, I'm Going to Search” appeared.