The collection includes early stories of the Grand Master of the NF, but already in them Simak creates his own - unusual and nevertheless surprisingly similar to the real world - and poses those problems that will worry the writer for many decades to come. the consequences of the uncontrolled development of civilization and the loss of its enduring values, the responsibility of each person not only to himself and those who live nearby, but also to future generations, the fate of the universe and humanity as a whole This volume of the complete collection of works, only seven stories of which were previously published in Russian, can rightly be called collectible. It will undoubtedly be an unexpected gift to all admirers of the Master’s work .. In compiling the collection, a truly colossal work was carried out in the archives and libraries of the United States in order to find those works that, even in the West, were not included in any of the books and were only once printed in periodicals.