About the book: 1918 / A. Bogdanov's novel "Engineer Manny" (1912) is a continuation of his utopia "Red Star". The hero of the novel [“Red Star”] Leonid speaks on behalf of a team of translators with a translation of a historical novel dedicated to the history of the origins of the communist movement on Mars during the construction of the Grand Canals. The novel is a popularization of A. Bogdanov’s scientific ideas about “organizational” science, which he later outlined in his work “Tectology” (1913–1926). fb2: Complete lifetime edition in the original spelling with preservation of the author's semantic accents (italics are reproduced, emphasis is replaced by bold).