About the book: 2017 / “Island of Lost Ships”. 1920s. A transatlantic liner crashes in the ocean. Miraculously, the surviving passengers - Reginald Gatling, arrested for a crime he did not commit, detective Simpkins escorting him to the States and the beautiful Viviana Kingman - are carried by the current somewhere into the still waters of the terrible and mysterious Sargasso Sea, where they find themselves captives of the inhabitants of a mysterious man-made island... "The Last Man from Atlantis." A mysterious island, located in ancient times somewhere behind the Pillars of Hercules, a powerful empire that extended its influence over half of the inhabited world and lost everything in one day... American billionaire Soli organizes a search expedition in the hope of finding at least some traces of the mythical state. 10 years before the adventures of Conan the Cimmerian, half a century before “Thais of Athens,” Belyaev revived the legend, showing the reader the world at the dawn of history through the eyes of a man from Atlantis. “Heavenly Guest” was the poetic name given to a double star that should pass in close proximity to Earth, while tearing off part of the earth's atmosphere and oceanic mass. Brave scientists are constructing a heavy-duty deep-sea vehicle, hoping to move in it to the surface of a space aggressor. They are not stopped even by the understanding that it will be impossible to return to Earth.