About the book: year / Greg EGAN. Dark wholes Do you think that the table at which you sit, the house in which you live, are unshakable, like reality itself? It's actually a matter of mathematics. Just like reality itself. Henry Lyon ALDI, Andrey VALENTINOV. COLLAR FOR THE AVENGER The box was not at all easy to open. The mysteries of the East did not want to succumb to the rationalism of the West. Andrey STOLYAROV. MELODY THE MOTHHere, as if on a canvas in Papa Carlo’s closet, everything is unreal: the sun, the sky, splashes of water, pine needles... And here, too, there is a legend about a certain Secret Key. Eric James STONE. THE ASHES OF THE FATHERS...must rest on their native planet. For this, the hero is ready to take mortal risks. And it’s not just about honoring one’s ancestors. Fergus Gwynplaine McINTYRE. WHEN the enemies look the same: evil, insensitive, alien. Trying to distinguish one from many means almost understanding. Ted COSMATKA. THE ART OF ALCHEMY...or advanced chemistry. The difference is small. At all times there have been greedy hunters to take possession of the secret of transforming one thing into another. Sergey SHIKAREV. WITH A WHIP AND A HAT Aged Indiana alone is not able to defeat the gang of Stalinists. And for a couple with my son - quite enough! Sergey TSVETKOV. TANKS AT THE COURT OF KING ARTHURWe arm ourselves more thoroughly - and into the past! Why else do you need a time machine if you can’t use it to fight? VIDEO REVIEWS From the film adaptation of a bestselling horror novel to a heart-warming story about Nessie’s childhood. Nikolai KALINICHENKO. SIMULTANEOUS GAME SESSIONSuch global inter-publishing projects have never happened in the history of modern Russian book publishing. REVIEWER There is a surge of domestic fiction in the book market. And, accordingly, shallowing of the foreign part. CURSORUmer MYTH. The most popular author of humorous fantasy in Russia has left readers. Vl. GAKOV. JAMES BOND WITH A TYPEWRITEROne of the most mysterious foreign science fiction writers would have turned 95 this year. Our reader will learn many surprising details from the biography of Cordwainer Smith for the first time. Dmitry BAIKALOV, Evgeny KHARITONOV. THE MOST FUNNY PEOPLE ON THE LANET This is how the new winner of the “Big Roscon” award assessed our science fiction fans whom he met at Eurocon 2008. PERSONALIESProbably the biggest surprise for the reader are writers who have not appeared for a long time not only on the pages of the magazine “If”, but also in the fantasy world. Today we present one of these “fugitives”.