About the book: year / By the middle of the twenty-fifth century, the human race dominates in space. Access to the resources of thousands of planets and the absence of competitors ensure prosperity and stability. But people feel like kings of the Galaxy only as long as nature allows them to do so. On the planet Quiet, on the outskirts of the all-powerful Terrosoyuz, there live animals whose potential at the beginning of the evolutionary path is higher than the entire sum of the achievements of mankind, and a collision with them cannot be avoided. Who will win - people with their technology or animals ready to become gods? Which side is superior??