About the book: 1971 / Reader! The story you just read is unusual in form. The answer lies in its very name. “Palindrome” is a literary genre, the main requirement of which is very curious: the work must be “mirror”, that is, absolutely equally readable from both the beginning and the end. It remains to add that abroad the authors of fantastic palindromes are such prominent writers as A. Azimov, F. Pool, B. Aldis, R. Bradbury.