About the book: year / The book plays on Hugh Everett’s idea of ​​a multi-world interpretation of the universe, which assumes the existence of “parallel universes.” The action takes place mostly in modern Russia, but sometimes the characters are transported in time and space along the tree of times. The heroes of the book are not only people: Tromb is a virtual fighter, a former computer game bot. Virusapiens is a virus that has gained intelligence, a former human symbiont. Professor Medvedev and his colleagues working on artificial intelligence problems. Boys Slavka Pugachev and Dimka Potemkin, who find themselves at the center of scientific experiments. They are the first representatives of the new species Homo Liberis - a person free from the virus and from the restrictions it imposes on the capabilities of the human body.