About the book: 1997 / XXI century. In order to prevent the extinction of humanity as a result of a seemingly inevitable natural disaster, earthlings created the Sphere of Stability - a giant “Noah’s Ark”. The protective fields of the Sphere make any contact with people remaining on Earth impossible. A huge metropolis is closed in on itself. However, life in the Sphere of Stability turns out to be far from stable... The main character of the novel by the popular Moscow science fiction writer A. Kalugin belongs to not the first generation of inhabitants of the Sphere. The earth for him is something from the realm of myths. He is an ordinary guy whose interests are focused only on how to live today and ensure his prosperity tomorrow. But quite unexpectedly, this “hero of that time” becomes one of the key figures in a fierce and brutal struggle for power between the main departments of the Sphere. And then it turns out that Igor Stinov is endowed with far from ordinary abilities…