About the book: year / (story) fan fiction based on the Talar cycle of works by A.A. Bushkov It’s not the place that makes the man... For this character in “The Flying Islands” it was the place that became defining. Bureaucrat with a capital B, Director of the Office of Earthly Affairs, His Imperial Highness Prince of the Crown Diamer-Soniril, who bears a derogatory nickname in narrow circles, it turns out, can also dream and yearn…