The space of Alastair Reynolds “British Heinlein” is not fond of those who settled on it for several centuries, overcoming Earth’s gravity. Here raging "star wars" between irreconcilable factions, which split humanity. Here, the floating plague - a mutation of nanomechanisms-viruses - led to the complete decline of a high-tech colony, which achieved incredible prosperity thanks to the same viruses. Pirate ships with crews of genetically modified animals are waiting for prey here, and ultranaut traders - people who voluntarily turned into cyborgs - will willingly undertake to get a living alien monster for a rich collector snob … Thirteen masterfully written stories and stories, thirteen new fragments of a giant mysterious mosaic, whose name is "The Space of Revelation" Most of the works included in this book are published in Russian for the first time.