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Those Who Survive

Those Who Survive is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Those Who Survive rather than just read about it. In short: Those Who Survive (Russian title: Посёлок, Posyolok, "The Settlement") is a science fiction novel of space robinsonade type by Russian writer Kir Bulychev. It is a story of a settlement of the survivors of a starship crash on an uninhabited planet, in two parts.

Key takeaways

Those Who Survive belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Those Who Survive to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Those Who Survive from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Those Who Survive (Russian title: Посёлок, Posyolok, "The Settlement") is a science fiction novel of space robinsonade type by Russian writer Kir Bulychev. It is a story of a settlement of the survivors of a starship crash on an uninhabited planet, in two parts. The first part is the story of survival. The second part is about how another space expedition accidentally finds the survivors. It is part of Bulychev's Doctor Pavlysh series. The first part was adapted into a 1988 Soviet animated short film The Pass in 1988.

Plot The story of the first part starts sixteen years after the crash landing of starship Pole in icy mountains of an unknown uninhabited planet, after which the survivors immediately abandoned the ship for fear of radiation and moved to a lower place. Several attempts to revisit the ship fail, and only the children of the crew reach the ship, with difficulties, and bring some supplies to the settlement. They also find communications equipment working, but they do not know how to use it. The second part starts some three Earth years (one local year) after the events of the first part. The first generation clings to the Earth calendar, but the youth accept the local time count. One young man comes up with the idea of constructing an air balloon to make another trip to Pole. They rise above the clouds and notice an object that looks like an exploratory probe. It turns out that another starship Magellan landed an expedition on the planet. They find the remnants of the ship, but decide that the whole crew perished. According to the regulations that forbid leaving traces of visitations, they decide to destroy Pole, but during the second inspection they conclude that some of the crew survived. After more adventures of both Pole and Magellan crews, a happy end follows.

Publication history The first part was serialized in the Znanie-Sila popular science magazine in 1980 under the title The Pass (Перевал). The second part, Beyond the Pass (За перевалом) was first published in an abridged form translated in Czech language as Země je příliš daleko serialized in the children's weekly magazine Sedmička pionýrů in 1986/1987. The complete novel was printed as a book in 1988. In 2000 it was published in English, translated by John H. Costello. In German, the first part was published as Der Gebirgspass in 1986, the whole book was published as Überlebende in 1995. It took the 3rd place among the 1996 nominations for the Kurd Laßwitz Award in the category "Best foreign SF novel of 1995".

References

External links Those Who Survive title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Those Who Survive, 2000, Internet Archive

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Those Who Survive

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Those Who Survive claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Those Who Survive before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Those Who Survive ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Those Who Survive

In research: Those Who Survive appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Those Who Survive in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Those Who Survive is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1988 science fiction novels, Fiction about interstellar and intergalactic travel, Robinsonades, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Those Who Survive outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Those Who Survive in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Those Who Survive means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Those Who Survive out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Those Who Survive in simple terms?

Why does Those Who Survive matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Those Who Survive?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Those Who Survive.