About the book: year / Laine Gladys Oskarovna. Born in Petrozavodsk. She graduated from the Petrozavodsk Music College, violin class. She worked as an artist of the Petrozavodsk Musical Theater Orchestra. Since 1971 she began working in journalism. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Leningrad State University. A. A. Zhdanova, Worked in the newspaper “Neuvosto-Karyala”, in the Union of Writers of the KASSR, currently heads a department in the magazine “Punalipiu”. Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. She made her debut in literature in 1980 with the story “Mother and Son.” She first turned to science fiction in 1983 with the story “The Morning of the Winner.” The first book of prose was published in 1985 - a collection of short stories “Step and Another”. Writes in Finnish.