About the book: year / Seventh millennium AD. Humanity has settled, having mastered eight habitable planets. After several periods of decline and prosperity, wars and disasters, the ruling elite finally found a way out and united the planets into a Union for the sake of stability. Four hundred years of peace and prosperity did not pass without clouds and a new crisis loomed on the horizon, the best minds began to work on solving it. The novel “The Fall” begins with the story “Cyborg Panther” about the ministerial cyborg woman Natya, who got into trouble and unexpectedly found herself in the very whirlpool of events. On the planet Topal, where Nata serves in the Ministry of Defense, not everything is as smooth and calm as it seems at first glance. Her mysterious boss is keeping his secrets, and the woman she met is up to no good. And society is full of intolerance and cruelty. Nata herself does not understand where she lives, until one accident rips her out of her safe, cozy little world.…