About the book: year / All anthropoxenes on peaceful planets were convinced from childhood that it is impossible to live without a Master in their heads, that a humanoid that does not have a Master is as unreasonable as a child in the first forty-eight seasons of life, and are likened to barbarians who have never known the beneficial influence of the Supreme Mind. But having chosen life on the threshold of death and having gone through the terrible pain of separation of the Master from the living body, they learned that millions of anthropoxenes turned to dust are fighting in hot sectors without a Master in their heads, in which, in place of a telepathic eye, there is an ugly black hole, overgrown with uneven horny tissue. And it is they, doomed to dust, who are destined to play an important role in the confrontation between the Supreme Mind and earthlings…