[2] "Dilo", Lyuben's father, as an active member of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union(BZNS), was sent to translate dispatches in Nazi Germany on the party's behalf.

As the BZNS was facing persecution in Bulgaria, Dilov's father was compelled to remain in Berlin and create and edit the pro-government Bulgarian newspaper Rodina.

Dilov writes that the family, during their fifth and final year in Germany, occupied the lavish apartment of an old Jewish millionaire who was hiding himself in the attic and who would come down for tea at night.

[2] Lyuben Dilov's father spent years imprisoned by the newly established Communist government in various concentration camps such as that at Belene Island.

"[4] In 1979, Milan Asadurov founded the Biblioteka Galaktika publishing series and called on Dilov, Agop Melkonyan, Dimitr Peev, Ognyan Saparov, Elka Konstantinov, Svetozar Zlatarov, and Svetoslav Slavchev to serve as the editing staff.

Biblioteka Galaktika, with its iconic spiral emblem and cover art by Tekla Aleksieva, offered the best Bulgarian science fiction and crime writers alongside the giants of the genres including translated works from Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, the Strugatskys, Stanislav Lem, Sakyo Komatsu, Pier Paolo Pasolini, etc.

[6] His 1993 memoir For the Dead, Either Good or Funny included a tribute to dissident Georgi Markov, whose name hadn't appeared in state media since his assassination in 1978.

The first recipients were writer and editor Agop Melkonyan, a long time colleague of Dilov's, and artist Tekla Aleksieva who, in addition to many other illustrated works, had already created over one hundred covers for the Biblioteka Galaktika series.

But the problem of the novel is much broader - there is symbolism in the title: The weight of the spacesuit - is "the physical limitations of human existence, completely dependent on machines, without which man is defenseless in the icy horror of space.".

trying to persuade the public to keep philosophical ideals alive"[4] Svetoslava Bancheva wrote of Dilov: "It is said that the great writers and poets sometimes make greater discoveries about the world than scientists.

His novels, novellas, and short stories are fun escapades for people with imagination, at the end of which (besides defeating the beasts, dragons, monsters, and cyclopses) the reader receives a great reward - true human philosophical knowledge.

Lyuben Dilov's books provoke people to invent, to fantasize, to have fun and to put themself into the scenes, to interpret their lives through them and to enjoy the meaning and the knowledge.

"[11][12] Dilov stated that the reason for the fourth safeguard was that: "The last Law has put an end to the expensive aberrations of designers to give psychorobots as humanlike a form as possible.

And to the resulting misunderstandings..."[11] Dilov's story Contacts of a Fourth Kind was included in the English language multi-writer novel Tales from the Planet Earth.