About the book: 2005 / When trying to enter hyperspace, the Lebed spaceship crashed. Communication with the control center and escort ships was cut off, energy reserves were exhausted, the instruments signaled real dangers, but unknown to the testers. In the entire history of the Long Jump ships, nothing like this had happened. The crew was unable to get back into normal space. The commander of the ship Panarin did not know where they were, but the “Swan” must return home... The novel and four stories included in the collection of Alexander Bushkov were written twenty years ago. The author himself in the afterword calls them half-forgotten. ===================== Contents of the collection: Non-flying weather. Roman We never called him Joe. The story...And forget Eden forever. TaleThe country that everyone knew about. The Tale of the Varangians without an invitation. Tale