Earth catastrophes and interstellar wars, today's scientific breakthroughs and tomorrow's high-tech obscurantism, the dream of immortality and the meeting with a dream, after which it remains only to die The universe of Alastair Reynolds seems to have absorbed all the popular subgenres and themes of fiction, and they are explored with the insight and acumen of a practicing scientist. No wonder he is called one of the main science fiction of our time, “British Heinlein”. In this collection, the author of the famous “Space of Revelation” appears before us as a master of small and medium form these stories and stories of fascination are in no way inferior to the grandiose cosmoopers who glorified him. Based on the works “Behind the Eagle” and “Blue Period of Winter” were filmed, perhaps, the two best series of the acclaimed series “Love, Death and Robots”, produced by David Fincher. Most of the works included in this book are published in Russian for the first time.