About the book: year / The story was published - Collection of science fiction. Issue 26. Moscow: Knowledge, 1982. This planet was found by accident. It turned out to be almost an exact copy of the Earth and was called Earth-beta. And immigrants from our Earth live on it. But something on Earth-beta took away the ability to feel from people. Love and hatred, anger and compassion are no longer just empty words for the Betans, they don’t even know these words. They are indifferent to everything except themselves. “The land of the calm, the land of the living dead” - this is what a man said about his planet, who accidentally managed to regain his lost feelings. Now he wants to do the same for all Bethans. Blow up their artificial paradise, make them human again. But do the Betans themselves want this??