About the book: year / What is the age of our youngest correspondents? Here's the answer. The author of the story posted here learned the secret of the alphabet only three years ago. Having mastered the alphabet, the boy immediately took up the luminaries of the science fiction genre. The result is the story “Space Troopers,” which arrived just in time for the start of our competition. Here is an excerpt from a letter from our young correspondent: “...I read about the paratroopers in the science fiction story “The Return” by A. and B. Strugatsky. He wrote the stories “The Law of Life”, “Planet of the Yellow Twisters”, “Izhez”, “Cepheid No. 3Z”... The stories “Cepheid No. 33”, “Planet of the Yellow Twisters” and “Space Troopers” talk about the heroism of Maria Ilyaningen and the courage of Nils Cuara . The story “Izhez” talks about how life was discovered on the planet Catullus. My work plan for 1964 includes stories about the paratroopers “Morena”, “Life, Death and Life Again of Vilho Pionen”, “Who Will Go Forward?” And now goodbye. 3rd grade student of school No. 77 Evgeniy Filenko. Perm Young technician, 1964, No. 9, pp. 60 - 61 Fig. Y. PAVLOVA