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Nikolay Tellalov was born in 1967 in Sofia From 1975 to 1984, he lived in the former USSR In 1987, he enrolled at the Sofia Higher Institute of Chemical Technology, studying toward a B.Sc in Chemistry he dropped out in 1994 Later, he went through a variety of professions a construction worker, a bank security guard, a postman, a baker, a bookseller, a carpenter From 2001 to 2005, he worked as an editor at Kvasar Publishing House Currently, he is a freelance translator from and into Russian.Tellalov s first publication was the novella To Wake a Dragon Girl 1998 , a contemporary fairy tale about the love between a human youth and a half zmey girl, interweaving elements of Bulgarian mythology and history with realistic literature It grew into the Zmey Cycle, so far consisting of the novels A Royal Decree 2001 , Full Earth 2003 Sun Untouchable 2009 To Wake a Dragon Girl has had three paper editions and an electronic one in 2000, it was voted by Bulgarian SF fandom as the second best Speculative Fiction Book of the 1990s A similar vote declared A Royal Decree the Best Speculative Fiction Book of 2001, and Full Earth was included in the curriculum of the United World College of the Adriatic in 2004 and 2005.Besides the Zmey Cycle, Tellalov has had a novel and a short story collection published 10 10 to the Power of 9 2007 describes a future dominated and shaped by nanotechnology Guardian Angels 2008 collects the eponymous novella and a number of short stories Over the past ten years, Tellalov s stories and novelettes have appeared in various Bulgarian anthologies and magazines His foreign publications include Russian translations of a novella 2005 and several short stories 2008 .