About the book: year / The war happened unexpectedly. Just as unexpectedly, the earthlings suddenly fell upon the heads of the world with their galactic technologies, problems of the survival of civilizations and inhuman logic of decision-making. Just now Grishka Ivashov and his friends and colleagues were sitting in the office, slowly finishing the project, and suddenly... the military registration and enlistment office, the assembly point, the desert planet Ka-148, where they, along with the sierks, dishts and all sorts of other kess, were turned into fighters of the universal army, fighting the Red Zeds, locusts that devour entire star systems. In one of the battles, the station where Gregory was assigned as a coordinator ended its existence, marking the beginning of his wanderings and adventures in very, very distant space…