Basov Nikolai: biography, books and reviews

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The books of Basov Nikolai have firmly taken their place in the niche of the "middle peasants" of the world of science fiction and fantasy. Among his works there are no books that would be considered a masterpiece of science fiction. But they are quite readable, and they have formed their own readership.

Biography

So, Basov Nikolai Vladlenovich.

Place of birth: Kadievka city, Lugansk region

Birthday: 1954-15-10

Education: School of Physics and Mathematics (1971), Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering (1977), speci alty - cryogenic engineer.

Personal life: married, met his wife at the institute, two children.

Work: after studying, Nikolai Basov worked as a designer (later as an equipment adjuster) at a closed enterprise. His activities involved frequent and long business trips, so the future writer managed to visit all corners of the USSR. During perestroika, Nikolai Basov worked as the head of the technical service at the Moscow Research Institute.

After the collapse of the USSR, the author worked as a simple worker, tried his hand atentrepreneurial activities, and also tried to write.

Creativity

Basov Nikolai always wanted to become a writer, from early childhood, when he was very passionate about science fiction. But fate decreed that he had to postpone the fulfillment of his dream. Since 1987, the author has been attending creative classes at the Litfond for several years. His teachers were Tadeos Barkhudaryan, Galina Drobot and Anatoly Pristavkin. In 1990, Basov closely connected himself with literary activity and began working as a translator at the Asmodeus publishing house, mastered the profession of an editor. I even had to be a “literary negro” for some time and publish under pseudonyms (B. Futov).

Nikolai Basov began to write books closely in 1992, but his debut book was published only in 1995. It was a fantastic action movie "Demon Hunter".

The author collaborated with the publishing houses "Armada", "Alpha-book", "Apostrophe". Most of the books were published by the Eksmo publishing house.

Books

Dilogue "Ilya Rusov": books written under the pseudonym B. Futov (1996-1977), a criminal detective with elements of the supernatural.

The Magic of the Unknown series: consists of three fantasy novels - The Magic of the Unknown, Seeking the Unexpected, The Game of Magic. The fourth part of the "Clash of Magic" is not completed, although it has been 7 years since the writing of the third book.

The cycle about the world of Lothar has no name and is divided into two large series: "Chronicles of Lothar the Yellowhead" (8 books, 1995-1997)and Troll Reborn (8 books, 1998-2002). Both series belong to the genre of combat fiction (heroic fantasy) and are stylistically very similar. Considered one of the author's best works.

The Followers of the Shadow dilogy: the first part of Prince Diodorus was written in 2007, the second novel is not completed.

Soldier Stefan cycle: the first part of the trilogy "Invulnerable does not exist" was written in 1998, the second and third novels are not completed.

The Dark Folders series: four stories, online publication only.

The Noon World Series: 9 soft science fiction novels (1998-2005).

Individual works: the novel "Mochilovo" (2000, one of the author's most unsuccessful works), "The Siberian Crane: Murder is Inevitable" (2004, detective story), "The Problem of Survival" (2012), " Total persecution” (2007, science fiction), “Alternatives” (2013), novels, essays, short stories and articles.

Reviews

Basov Nikolai is a controversial writer. On the one hand, fans of classic fantasy like his books: the narrative is sequential, logical, without a thousand necessary and unnecessary events on each page. And because of this, novels can seem boring to the modern reader, even boring: they lack what is now commonly called the word "action".

Enough of other shortcomings. For example, the novel The Game of Magic was criticized for poor development of the world, cardboard-template characters, and flaws in style. Moreover, even the author’s fans remained dissatisfied, who fell in love with Basov forseries about Lothar.

However, there is no need to be zealous with criticism. Basov Nikolay writes rather for older teenagers, and male teenagers. So for an intelligent lady of an elegant age, the author's novels may not seem very suitable for reading. Whereas her grandchildren might be absolutely delighted.

The author's books are hardly worth reading for women - this is a typical heroic fantasy about brutal and courageous heroes, fighters against global evil and particular cases of injustice, and about what path you need to go to become this very hero.

In general, as already mentioned, for boys 14-16 years old, these books will be the right choice. But more mature and sophisticated readers will immediately find thousands of shortcomings, because of which they can stop reading these particular books: there are many works in the same genre, but written with more talent, the stereotyped characters and the recognizability of the storyline, the discrepancy between various details of the story and real facts, primitiveness of the main idea, etc.

But if the reader clearly understands what to expect from such a book and he wants to read something from the classic "correct" heroic fiction, where a lonely hero saves everyone and everything, then Nikolai Basov's books are one of the best options.