About the book: 2018 / The collection includes never published stories and prose passages, which are early versions of the chapters of "The Land of Crimson Clouds ", "Interns", "Afternoon, XXII Century" and "It's Hard to Be a God." Also included in the collection is “Explanation of the translation of the medieval chivalric novel “The Tale of Yoshitsune,” a masterpiece of Japanese classical literature translated by Arkady Strugatsky.