About the book: 2017 / Venus is the second Earth, but to To make the Venusian hell suitable for human existence, it is necessary to defeat not only volcanic eruptions, heat storms and acid rain, but also the mysterious Red Ring, which lures the ominous Firemen... A clot of matter and energy froze in a three-dimensional void, preparing for a transdimensional displacement. According to centuries-old tradition, the clot was called a “spaceship”, and the displacement was called “interstellar flight”. Strange tradition. What does a fragile openwork structure, similar to a garland of soap bubbles surrounded by lace, have in common with a ship?..Who is not mistaken? Two hundred and fifty years ago, when the Agreement on the Friendship of Intelligent Planets had just been signed, three ships went into space. None of them returned, and so the decision was made not to send a fourth. Until a message arrived about a planet inhabited by creatures very close to us...Vadim Panov, Yaroslav Verov, Dmitry Kazakov, Mike Helprin and others in the traditional annual collection released following the results of the International Science Fiction Festival “Constellation Ayu-Dag”-2016»!