About the book: 2002 / About the "Imperial Star" Delaney says the following: “The whole concept of an endless vertical system of values, a boundless ascent to heights was replaced by the idea of ​​centers, the idea of ​​different universes and radically different points of view, related only by direction, distance and trajectory... The most recent astronomical maps and simulation models of the million new discovered galaxies lack any center-forming principle, although numerous clusters exist (for example, the Virgo Cluster, the Local Supercluster galaxies, Coma cluster, galaxy M81). Instead of uniting around a central point, they, like cobwebs, covered a huge space, a multiverse,” a new concept that displaces the familiar concept of the Universe, a universe that was invented before Socrates and has long been outdated. <…>Does this mean that linear thinking , based on the vertical system, is not suitable for space opera? On the contrary, here it prevails, as in any other product of our world. Even in the “Imperial Star” you will encounter this. But it is curious that the classic space opera, based on the idea of ​​many worlds and flights between them, shifts guidelines and offers ways to shake, overcome, and destroy linear thinking." The story contains a biographical sketch about the author