About the book: 2019 / Collection of stories, the action of which takes place not in magical worlds, but in Space. There is no magic. Of course, much of what is described has analogies in fantasy worlds, but a commonplace smartphone today with a voice command program like “Alice” installed on it is not much different from the plate on which Baba Yaga rolls a liquid apple. The genre is rather not pure SF, but space opera with attempts to play with style. Written in different years, some were published in “paper” magazines and collections (“Aelita”, “Ural Pathfinder”, EKSMO collections). Today the trend is not fashionable, but it can bring pleasure to old fans. An illustration by Alexey Fedotov, published in the Ural Pathfinder, was used for the cover».