About the book: 1997 / Hugo Award, 1996 // Tale (Novella). The story debunks the era of space operas. The era of romance in space, the era of waiting for happiness and miracles in the vacuum of star space, gave way to the era of business and making money, space turned out to be real, cold and indifferent, and not toy, warm and comfortable. Incorrigible romantics are not able to take root in the new world. The famous defender of law and order, Captain Future, is in fact a crazy loser who wanders around the solar system on a rusty vessel with no business and no purpose... © fantlab.ru