About the book: 2018 / The novel that opens this volume of the classic of world science fiction tells the story of Podkein Fries, a citizen of the Martian Republic, a girl who went with her brother Clark and Uncle Tom on a journey to Earth in transit through Venus - a journey that was quite predictable, but ended with an unpredictable result. The second novel (“Citizen of the Galaxy”) tells the story of the life of Thorby, an earthly boy who was kidnapped by space slave traders in early childhood, but threw off the shackles of slavery and made his way to the stars. Both novels are published in a new edition.