About the book: year / Collection of stories written in the early 40s: Remember the Future. [Remember tomorrow. (Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1941 No. 1)] The Cruel Gods of Venus. [War-gods of the void. (Planet Stories, 1942, Fall)] The crypt city of the immortals. [Crypt-city of the deathless one. (Planet Stories, 1943, Winter)] A god named Kru. [A God named Kroo. (Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1944, Winter)] • “Remember the Future” - 26th century. Humanity has overcome diseases, hunger, wars, and social injustice. But he lost a part of himself - this is acutely felt by a 20th century man extracted from a “time capsule” by chance. He tests the strength of the “brave new world”... • “Cruel gods of Venus” - The criminal, having taken possession of a secret of extreme importance, changed his identity and disappeared on Venus. The police inspector follows him with the intention of arresting the scoundrel and extraditing him back to Earth. But Venus has its secrets. To win the battle with the true owners of the planet, the heroes, having stepped over personal ambitions, are forced to unite. • “Crypt City of the Immortals” - Ganymede is perhaps the worst world for humans in the Solar System. But there are artifacts from the civilization of the Ancients, an extinct race that far surpassed humanity in its development. And when the Earth's resources are exhausted, and a deadly disease is raging on the planet itself, maybe Ganymede holds the key to the salvation of humanity? • “A God named Kru” - An ordinary Tibetan-Himalayan god is in complete despondency due to oblivion on the part of his own flock. Once upon a time, in ancient times, the peasants who invented him fervently prayed, enthusiastically believed and made bloody sacrifices to him. But more than fifty years ago the last priest died, and during all this time only one domestic yak, due to the oversight of its former owner, crossed the border of the temple courtyard. According to local customs, it became the property of God, although faith in him was practically lost. And then one day an American archaeologist appeared in these places, carrying with him a lot of various materials and having lost two draft animals in an avalanche. Since none of the local residents wanted to sell him cattle, the Yankees, without going into details, threw money on the ground as payment for the yak he noticed near the temple hut... Along with the sacred animal, the American also acquired the dangerous patronage of a god named Kru…