About the book: 2003 / CLASSICS OF RUSSIAN FICTION The book includes almost all the works written by Vladimir Firsov over 20 years of creative work. For the story “The Tale of the Fourth Moon,” created in the late 60s, this is the first book publication. The literary fate of Vladimir Nikolaevich Firsov (1925–1987) was not very successful... A writer recognized as the author of REALLY good and DIVERSE science fiction, published only ONE collection of science fiction works - “Star Elixir”. Every single one of Firsov’s works is known to us only from periodicals and anthologies. Is this fair?! Here is the BEST of the writer’s creative heritage, the FIRST TIME novel “Cutting Down the Cross”, the stories “The Tale of the Fourth Moon”, “Both Life and Death”, the short story “Your Hands Like the Wind” and stories from different years.!