About the book: year / From the author. This is my first major work written and presented to the general public. I would like to immediately warn critical readers that I am not a physicist, not a chemist, or a mathematician. And in no way do I pretend to be the Pythia under the Oracle. This work is simply a flight of my wild and, to some extent, not entirely healthy imagination. I really wanted to imagine other worlds and adapt them to the consciousness of the average person. Describing the life activity of aliens, I could use meaningless, and therefore indigestible, terms like “brambulet in petejar oil,” like the late Kir Bulychev, whom I respect. However, after thinking about it, I abandoned this idea, so my characters, although they are of alien origin, happily eat borscht and, if necessary, take nitroglycerin tablets. I am fully aware that the plot sometimes suffers from protractedness, "bearded" humor and sometimes outright boredom. Dear believers, I ask you, please do not consider this work anti-clerical and offending your religious feelings. Most of all I would like to avoid this, but if I still inadvertently offended you, then forgive me, for Christ’s sake! PS All the characters in the work, with the exception of the Kruglov family, are genuine. With that said, I bow out and wish you a pleasant time