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1	''Alice's Birthday'' (Russian: День рождения Алисы) is a children's sci-fi novella by Creator/KirBulychev, first published in 1974.
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3	[[Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture Alice]] gets a birthday gift from old family friend Gromozeka: she is to join his archaeological expedition to Koleida, a planet whose inhabitants died out from a mysterious disease (suspected to be the deadly space plague) a hundred years ago. When the researchers from the Institute of Time confirm that it was the space plague, Gromozeka offers Alice to travel to the past and spray the space plague vaccine over the astronauts that brought the virus from space. Professor Rrrr, a specialist in historical linguistics who looks like a one-eyed kitten, says he will accompany her, disguised as a normal cat, and the two of them rush to the past.
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5	!! The novella contains examples of:
6	* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Tolo's mother gets so thrilled about her son's arrival and about herself helping Alice that she really begins to believe that Alice is her daughter.
7	* BirthdayEpisode: The one piece in the series to focus on [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Alice's birthday]].
8	* FutureImperfect: After Alice fixes the past, she finds out her actions are remembered only as an eccentric action of an enthusiastic woman (back then, it was mistaken for an assassination attempt).
9	* MultinationalTeam: Taken up to eleven with the interplanetary archaeological team on Koleida, where the archaeologists each have a different number of "arms, eyes, and even heads".
10	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tolo, the Koleidian flight engineer, goes into space to fix the ship's fuselage which gets damaged by a minor meteorite strike. While doing so, he catches the space plague and becomes patient zero of the epidemic that wipes out the planet. Thankfully, the epidemic is stopped in the new timeline.
11	* ThePlague: The appropriately named space plague that can wipe out entire planets (such as Koleida in the old timeline). Prior to the recent invention of a vaccine, there was no escape from it.
12	* SamaritanRelationshipStarter: A platonic example. Alice and Rrrr's friendship begins when she saves him from being trampled by the crowd of archaeologists.
13	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Alice and Rrrr go to the past to prevent the space plague from killing every living thing on Koleida.
14	* SpeechImpediment: Mikhail Petrov speaks with a stutter.

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