About the book: year / We are publishing excerpts from the script and libretto of the film "Arenida", which received the highest distinction at the All-Union science fiction film competition held by Mezhrabpomfilm. About 200 scientists from the Soviet Union took part in the competition. The best work of the competition - “Arenida” - was written by scientific workers of T.T. Kazantsev (Moscow) and I.S. Shapiro (Leningrad). (The text is printed according to the publication: Kazantsev A.P. and Shapiro I.S. “Arenida” [Excerpts from the script and libretto of the film] - newspaper “For Industrialization”, 1936, No. 243 (dated October 18 ), page. 4.)