Kir Bulychev is the second largest figure in Russian fiction of the 20th century after the Strugatsky brothers. Several generations of readers have grown up on his books, and the first reader's love is long-lasting and does not cool down over the years. The founder of the Great Guslar, the godfather of Alice Selezneva, a girl from the future of the Earth, the chronicler of the works and days of Dr. Pavlysh and his friends from the crew of the interplanetary spaceship Segezha, the pilot on the Chronos River connecting the different shores of Russia in time — Kir Bulychev is multidimensional, like life itself, in his literary universe there is a place for joking a practical joke, and caustic, merciless irony, and the wisdom of a scientist and a visionary. The novel "Settlement", in addition to its action—packed basis — and the genre of "space robinsonade", to which the book belongs, already presupposes increased reader interest in advance - carries deeper shades and meanings. The difficult assimilation of shipwrecked people in space into the life of a planet alien to earthlings is another reason to talk about man as such, about his inner being, about humanity and inhumanity. That is, it's not just adventure and fantasy. This is literature.