About the book: 1992 / Young linguist Hal Yarrow, who arrived on a spaceship on the distant planet Ozdva, studies the language of the “bugs” - the intelligent inhabitants of Ozdva, who once descended from arthropods .And then one day, during a trip to the ruins of an ancient city, built by a long-vanished race of humanoids, he meets Jeanette - a woman who is not just exactly like the women of the Earth, but much better than them - beautiful, gentle, affectionate…