About the book: year / Alexander Abramov was born in Moscow, graduated from the Literary Institute named after V.Ya. Bryusova and the Institute of Foreign Languages. He made his debut in literature back in the twenties, his first experience was the fantastic story “The Death of Chess” (1926). Over the next forty years, he worked in the genre of literary criticism, wrote film scripts, and realistic stories about our contemporaries. In the late 50s - early 60s, his stories “I am looking for Kitezh-grad”, “Please stand up!”, “When the ambulance is late” were published. Only in 1966 did Alexander Ivanovich again turn to science fiction. The popular almanac “World of Adventures” published the story “Walking for Three Worlds.” But this story already had two authors. Uninformed people often call them brothers. Apparently, by analogy with the Strugatskys. In fact, Alexander Abramov and Sergei Abramov are father and son. By that time, Sergei Abramov had graduated from the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute and did not prepare himself for literary activity, although he wrote poetry and published notes in Moscow newspapers. It was Sergei Alexandrovich who gave his father the idea of ​​a fantastic story, telling him about the idea of ​​​​the multiplicity of spaces. The new literary duo was greeted quite favorably by readers, and by critics too. Obviously, the authors themselves liked the story, because after it they wrote a series of stories that made up the collection “The Emperor's Shadow” (1967). These stories were based on hypotheses from the fields of biology, physics, and cybernetics, based on which the authors built a sharp, fascinating plot. In 1968, the Abramovs released their first great science fiction novel, “Riders from Nowhere,” which, despite mixed reviews in the press, can probably be called the best of all that the two of them have written. “Riders from Nowhere” is a typical novel “about contact,” contact with creatures that are absolutely not like people and are called “pink clouds.” Contents: 1. Walking for Three Worlds [assembly] - Contents:1. Walking for Three Worlds 2. The Tale of Bigfoot 3. Everything is Permitted 4. Shadow of the Emperor 5. Blue Typhoon 6. Adventures on Lesnaya Street.2. Horsemen from Nowhere [assembly] - Contents: 1. Horsemen from Nowhere 2. Paradise without memory 3. Silver version.3. Above the Rainbow [assembly] - Contents: 1. Celeste-7000 2. In the forest near the front 3. The time of his students 4. Somewhere there, far away 5. Red-haired, red and a dangerous man 6. Above the Rainbow4. Versions of history [assembly] - Contents: 1. The tightrope walkers 2. Shakespeare and his dark lady 3. Noah and his sons5. My throne - Heaven [duology] [assembly] - Contents: 1. My resting place 2. Cup of wrath6. The King's New Dress [Assembly] - Contents: 1. Wall 2. Unformed 3. Stop Crane 4. The King's New Dress 5. Kill the Fear (Marathon Runner)7. It takes a miracle [assembly] Contents: 1. A quiet angel flew by 2. Two under one umbrella 3. Because because 4. It takes a miracle 5. A series of magical changes to a cute face 6. How good it is to be a general 7. The man from the star 8. The Wanderer.