Pavel Shumilov: biography and creativity

Pavel Shumilov is a famous Russian 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 this way: "In 1964 he graduated from a kindergarten." Further, he says that he was uneven at school. At the end of primary school was almost a double. In addition, many hooligans, because of what even got "unsatisfactory" in physical education for the first half.

Everything radically changed in the fifth grade. His studies interested him, he became almost an excellent student. Already in the sixth grade I decided which subjects interest him most of all. They studied closely, and the rest - on the residual principle.

As a result, he graduated from the school without a triple in the certificate. True, the five were only one. On physical education.

In 1974, Pavel Shumilov entered the Electrotechnical Institute, popularly known as LETI. He diligently attended seminars, practical and laboratory classes. But in the lectures appeared very rarely. At the same time, he spent most of his spare time at the institute, at the department of computer science.

In his student years he took part in the construction squad movement. I went to All-Union construction sites three times. 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.

Working career

After the institute, Pavel Shumilov went to work in a computer science research center, which was located at the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.

His duties included the maintenance of computers of all types and classes. Often, many of them had to be improved and improved. Useful programming skills. Was engaged in laying networks. In fact, at work, he simultaneously combined several specialties - engineer-developer, system analyst, engineer-exploiter.

For many machines, he wrote tests and applications himself Pavel Shumilov. Biography, however, says that his life was not entirely devoted to this work. Ever since childhood, our hero has become fascinated by fantasy, drinking heavily by 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, whose books are written in the genre of fiction, was first published only five years after the first literary experiments. In 1999, in one of the largest domestic private publishing houses in Moscow, "Tsentrpoligraf" released his series entitled "The Word of the Dragon."

His specialization is strict science fiction. From this genre, he does not decline. I always tried to polish my talent by studying with more eminent masters. For this purpose, since 1998, he was a full member of the seminar of the famous Soviet science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky. Up to the close of the project.

Today he lives in St. Petersburg.

Author's bibliography

Pavel Shumilov (all books on this author's order are listed in our article) debuted with the series "The Word of the Dragon". In the publishing house "Tsentrpoligraf" she appeared in a larger series of "Fantasy-Fantasy". It included the novels The Lonesome Dragon, The Dragon of Cong Castle, Become a Dragon and The Caravan of the Dead.

A lot of his works were published in separate editions. As a rule, in science fiction magazines. In 2007, in the St. Petersburg collection The Theory of Surprise (Lenizdat), a story was published from the cycle "Cruel Tales" titled "Tale No. 1. Master-wit".

In 2009, the publishing house "Azbuka-klassika" in the collection "Anthology of Fiction" was a novel from the same cycle. It was called "Tale number 4. Transfer me through the Maidan".

Soon the same story was published in the journal Fantastika, Literaturnoe prilozhenie, in issue 3. In 2005, in the journal "Noon, XXI Century", the publication of which was supervised by Boris Strugatsky, another story was published from the same cycle: "On the issue About the equality of the sexes ". The last known publication of the author refers to 2008. In the third issue of the journal "Young Technician" appeared his science fiction story "On the issue of long life."

Publications on the Internet

Such a small number of publications should not be misleading. The fact is that since the 90's Shumilov began to actively publish on the Internet.

In electronic form, his cycle, entitled "The Word of the Dragon," was completely released. He included the novels The Last Lord, The Word of the Dragon, The Dragon of the Cong Castle, The Shards of Eden, Go Get the Star, The Long-Forgotten Planet, Become a Dragon, Adam and Eve 2, , "Caravan of the Dead", "Duty before the sight", as well as the story "To the question of the meaning of life." The works were written from 1995 to 1998.

The second cycle was called "Fair Wind". It included "Commander's House", "Rescuers", "Tales by the fire" and "Short flights of Stelsi".

Already mentioned the cycle "Cruel Tales" consisted of novels "Percent compliance", "Must love", "Transfer me through the Maydan", the story "To the question of the nature of family happiness" and stories "Loves - does not like", "Master Lomaster" , "On the issue of equality of the sexes", "Cats' house".

For the collection "The Untrucky Crew" written the story "Logger" Cutty Snark "and the story" To the question of hunting for dragons. "

Last known to readers its cycle is called "Window of contact". It was started in 2002 with the story "Towards the Long Life". In 2015, there were novels "Ksapa hooligan", "This world is not invented by us" and the story "Three, four, five, I'm going to look."