About the book: 1965 / These are stories and stories about perseverance, courage, doubts and love of people distant, and perhaps not so distant from us the era when man will tame volcanoes and send the first photon ships into the unknown distances of the Big Cosmos. Is it possible to defeat time? When will the Columbuses of the first star routes return to Earth? Leona, the heroine of the story “When the Screens Are Silent,” believes that she will again meet her friend, whom she accompanied on the star voyage. While landing in the Arzakhel crater, the spaceship crashes. Geologist John Smith, the only surviving member of the expedition, becomes the first lunar Robinson. He manages to make amazing discoveries and... readers will learn about everything else from the story “Prisoner of the Arzakhel Crater.” “When the Screens Are Silent” is the fourth book by geologist and science fiction writer A. I. Shalimov. Young readers are already familiar with his books “Pulse of the Earth” , "Mountain Compass" and "The Mystery of the Thundering Cleft"».