About the book: 2001 / Who said that the Maelstrom seethes only on our Earth? Whoever said it was wrong For there is another Maelstrom... The one that swallows worlds and universes . The Maelstrom bursts into distant, alien planets with a whirlpool of wild, murderous energy. And the harbinger of Maelstrom - “The Flying Dutchman” Who said that the “Flying Dutchman” flies through the waves of the sea? Whoever said it lied. He rushes through space, through archipelagos of stars and the breakers of meteor showers. Forever damned. Doomed to hopeless wanderings in endless Space. And on board it is a half-erased, forgotten middle name. “DESPERATOR” What world, what planet is next on the path of the “Flying Dutchman”? Perhaps OURS? Who are the next victims of the cosmic Maelstrom? Perhaps WE?