About the book: year / The incident that prompted cousins ​​Evgeniy Voyskunsky and Isai Lukodyanov to work together was ordinary, one might even say, an ordinary road -transport accident. This is how “The Crew of the Mekong” and Ur, the son of Sham appeared, who continued the first novel and compiled the Dilogy “Institute of Marine Physics”. The magnificent irony of the co-authors, the romantic fascination with the sea, the ability to speak the language of the era in which the heroes live, and the abundance of entertaining facts from the history of science were preserved in the later books of Voiskunsky and Lukodyanov. Science fiction books were published especially abundantly during the years of relative freedom—the “thaw” 1960s. Then the collection “At the Crossroads of Time”, the stories “The Black Pillar” and “Formula of the Impossible”, the textbook story “Farewell on the Shore”, the novels “Very Distant Tartessus” and “The Splash of Starry Seas” were published. Contents: 1. The crew of the Mekong 2. The splash of starry seas 3. The Illegal Planet 4. Ur, son of Sham 5. Very distant Tartessus