The books of Ivan Efremov, who radically changed the face of Soviet and world fiction with his novel The Andromeda Nebula, were in many ways ahead of their time. His pen belongs not only to sci-fi and historical, but also esoteric works unusual for our literature of the sixties of the 20th century, exploring the secrets of the subconscious, its connection with the creative principle in man and his genetic memory. This volume was compiled by the philosophical and psychological novel “The Razor Blade” and the stories thematically adjacent to it “The Hellenic Secret”, which was released only twenty years after writing, and “Aphaneor, the daughter of Aharhellen” ..