About the book: year / The pages of the collection offer stories united by fantastic and sometimes phantasmagoric plots, in which the almost harsh realism of everyday life can flow into mystical events, as well as in a fairy tale. Stories related to the near future are the most traditional in form, and will be familiar to connoisseurs of social science fiction. The leitmotif of the collection is a look at the place of man in the world. Crossing their comfort zone, often against their will, the characters in the works try to understand what controls the mechanisms of the Universe. Does our world have an owner, be it God, a person, some organization or another, not yet discovered, entity? Obviously, a definitive answer to this question has not been given to this day. But perhaps the truth will be born in the dispute, for the light of reason drives out the fear of darkness.