Opens the issue of the story of Natalia Rezanova “The third day of the carnival” . It is difficult to determine his genre .. There is a rather complicated recipe: a bit of mysticism, a drop of fantasy, but this seemed to be not enough for the main character - she is trying her best to turn the story into a detective! But it is not difficult to do this: the story is easy and fascinating . The fantastic story of Leonid Morgun “Find a Philistine” was written in Soviet times “on the table”, so readers who remember the good old Soviet Union will easily guess what kind of planet Philumbridge is. Novel by Semyon Tsevelev "Ticket to Kathmandu" successfully stylized under the middle of the last century Ira Kadin once wrote for KVN. What has now become of KVN? But Ira Kadin writes and writes everything. It's funny. "Moshiko and the Major" . Fashionable now horror story "the end of the world" ... And in fact? The answer to Valery Tsurkan's "Second round". Kirill Lukovkin in his story “Face” left on behalf of his hero only the initial, than immediately sent the reader to the story … Kafki "Process"! It would seem that the similarity is over, but after reading the story "Face", you understand that this is not entirely true … Fantasy Natalia Ipatova “All the cows with brown spots” is not just an Irish legend, there are some scattered tobacco cans, from which at the right time pops up … No, not at all who you think …. This … No, I don't even want to mention his name here. The Gothic story of Tatiana Adamenko “The Feverton Witch” is not accidentally backed up from the bottom by the section “Translations”...The story “Black and White” by Stanislav Lem was published only once in Germany, and why, you will learn from the article by Pavel Okolovsky “Stanislav Lem’s Theology of the Devil” . Two English stories, Edward Benson's "Mr. Tilly's Sessions" and William Harvey's "Through the Swamps", have much in common and unexpectedly echo Lem's story "Black and White" Vladimir Hopman's essay "Knights of Fiction" is dedicated to his friend the science fiction writer Alexander Mirer . Yuri Lebedev's article "Not smooth even on paper..." about the dissident scientist Revolt Pimenov is not too easy to understand . But do not spare time - read it a few times ..."On duty for science" in this issue is the engineer-physicist Mikhail Shulman . Poems by Elena Sosnina, Andrei Medvedev and Alexander Gabriel .