About the book: year / All the stories in this volume are connected by an atmosphere of mystery, unusualness, and at the same time deeply realistic. The hero loses his memory in a plane crash and tries to understand in what reality he is now: on the road with the Red Army soldiers to Shambhala, during interrogations at the NKVD, or in an ordinary computer laboratory developing new games? (“No bad news from Sikkim”). A certain interstellar creature, trying to help his friend, who is smuggling living species from the planet Earth, having suffered an accident, is looking for his essence, gradually becoming imbued with the idea that people on the considered “unreasonable” planet are still intelligent. (“Foundling of Hell”). Finally, the story “Russian Struldbrug” reveals the tragic story of the first immortals created in a secret laboratory; one of them is Russian; on the territory of the future Russian-Chinese autonomy, he is trying to understand what brought him (and others like him) immortality?