About the book: 2013 / Serious collective creativity is not such a rarity in our science fiction. Let us recall, for example, “Pentacle” by Oldie, Dyachenko and Valentinov or the recently released “Ketopolis”. The book you are holding in your hands is the fruit of the joint efforts of the daring team of the Partenit literary seminar. Some of the authors already have solo books, others have managed to make their mark only with short stories and tales in collections. And it’s all the fault of Andrei Valentinov, who encouraged them to undertake this adventure! Who is the elevator operator? No, not who you thought. Elevator operators are the caretakers of interdimensional tunnels, they are also technicians. However, there are fewer and fewer of them, and the carefree humanity of the future has become accustomed to living without thinking about tomorrow. But tomorrow has not forgotten about humanity.