About the book: 2020 / AI operating on the basis of a system of biocomputers grinds into powder most of humanity’s technologies - from ballpoint pens to nuclear power plants. Food supplies are spoiled. All that people have left is edged weapons and the desire to survive. What to do if you are a psychopath sentenced to life imprisonment who is undergoing a course of experimental psychocorrection? And the first thing you hear when the capsule shuts down is "Hey, leather bastards!".