About the book: 2016 / Almost a thousand years have passed since the first flight into space, and humanity is still locked in its “cradle”, forced to master every suitable a corner of the solar system for life. For almost a thousand years, the best minds of humanity have been looking for ways to get at least to the nearest star systems. But all attempts invariably fail. No success, only disappointment. As sometimes happens, the solution was found by chance, suddenly, and it turned out not to be what scientists expected. But the step into a new era had to be paid - not only with money, not only with selfless labor, but also with the lives of ordinary people, not all of whom had anything to do with Space. And certainly none of them was going to sacrifice themselves even for the sake of fulfilling the long-standing dream of humanity…