About the book: 2007 / The weight of two hundred and ten years of life lay like the dust of centuries on the shoulders of Kin Arad, but she carried this burden with ease. She was older than twenty-nine worlds, in the construction of fourteen of which she personally took part, and had seen a lot. In general, it was very difficult to surprise Kin Arad with anything. But one day a man appeared in her office who said that he was more than a thousand years old and showed several artifacts that violated every conceivable physical law.…