About the book: 2005 / Dalia TRUSKINOVSKAYA. BORE OF HOPE A mysterious company offers everyone the implementation of Taoist wisdom: sit on the river bank and wait for the corpse of your enemy to float past. Alexander GROMOV. BABY SNAKE You can “tame” him, but you can give him a world that would suit him... Henry Lyon OLDIE. RISE, LAZARUS! Is there a feeling that prevents you from living? Do not rush to part with it: the consequences can be the most unpredictable. Oleg OVCHINNIKOV. A STAR AS A GIFT We, of course, are far from angels, but why is it so cool?.. Andrew WEINER. THE MAN WHO WAS HAPPYAnother attempt to master luck, this time made by the famous Canadian writer. Alexey KALUGIN. GALACTIC SHELTERKindergarten - and that’s all! But it fell to a brave warrior to lead it. Bruce McALLISTER. HEROWhat remains when you have already saved the Earth? The author of the story, stylized as a movie script, reflects on this. Alexander ROIFE. WHEN A FAIRY TALE IS BIRTHIt turns out that the famous folklorist brothers not only collected folk art and wrote books... Evgeniy KHARITONOV. SWEET STORYDentists and viewers with bad teeth are not recommended to watch! Boris DOLINGO. ALTERNATIVE PRESENT Is it fiction or documentary? Even the Venice Film Festival doesn’t know the answer... VIDEO REVIEWNon-realistic cinema amazes with its variety of genres. Gleb ELISEEV. YOURSELF AMONG STRANGERS, ANOTHER AMONG THEIR OWN Here is another theme invented by a non-science fiction writer, but successfully exploited by science fiction writers. REVIEWS. Authors - freeze and don’t breathe! Reviewers! CURSOR took the Greek across the river... along the “Star Bridge”. Dmitry BAIKALOV. CUSTOMS GIVES THE GOOD Readers have been waiting for Sergei Lukyanenko’s next novel for almost two years. Evgeny LUKIN. LIES LEADING TO THE TRUTH Did you think that a famous science fiction writer in the role of a publicist is capable of writing only manifestos of the National Linguistic Party? TOPIC EXAMINATIONExperts travel to the future to assess the current situation in the genre. PERSONALIES Magnificent number seven. And although they are from different countries, they speak the same language - the language of fantasy.