About the book: 1997 / This is the first Soviet space saga, written by Sergei Snegov in 197? year. I remember as boys we fought over who would be the first to read this book. From the current point of view, it most likely looks a little naive, but remember that this is one of the cornerstones in the foundation of modern Russian science fiction. Read it!...in the distant bright and wonderful future, where people have subjugated space and matter, where humanity is gathering alien races under its wing in a paternal manner, it suddenly turns out that a universal battle is going on - a battle for life and death. And people who have long forgotten what war is will have to fight…