About the book: 2012 / This is a book about the time when the great Deep Space will open its doors wide to people and distant planets will begin to reveal their secrets. About people who will be the first to visit other worlds. About how these people will differ from our contemporaries, and in what ways they will remain completely similar to us. What adventures, what mysteries does the Universe prepare for us, and what awaits humanity on its stellar journey. In a word, this is a story about an amazing era that people will call “The Time of the Galaxy”».