About the book: 2009 / The second volume of the collected works of the outstanding science fiction writer A. R. Belyaev includes novels and stories published at a turning point in Soviet history — 1928–1930 Along with the novels “Eternal Bread”, “The Golden Mountain”, “The Air Seller”, “The Man Who Lost Face” and “Underwater Farmers”, which have become classics of Russian adventure science fiction, this volume also includes the buff novel “Struggle on the Air”, telling about the war between Soviet Europe and the United States, banned for many years by domestic censorship and not republished for more than sixty years. Compiled by Evgeny Kharitonov and Dmitry Baikalov This collection is published with the approval of Svetlana Aleksandrovna Belyaeva