Folklore and fairy tale tradition in I. A. Efremov's works

In the article the author studies some features of poetics of a fairy tale which found reflection in science fiction literature in general and in I. A. Efremov’s works in particular. It is well-known fact that the main hero of a fantastic work is the world itself created by the author. Therefore, special attention is paid to laws of creation of an alternative fantastic world which were for the first time allocated by researchers (and by E. M. Neyolov too) in relation to the fairy tale: division into “one’s own” and “someone else’s”, distinction between “a look from outside” and “a look from inside”, the lack of choice, the requirement to keep a given word. In the course of the analysis of I. A. Efremov’s creations (the world-known novel “The Nebula of Andromeda” and other his works) there was made a conclusion that all these laws found their full and obvious reflection in the poetics of his novels (not only in science fiction but in historical novels too, for example “Tais Afinskaya”).