Timur is entrusted with responsibility. A responsibility on which human lives depend, and he is willing to go through a lot to preserve them. Even conquering...

An intelligence officer from the Empire of Eight Suns flies to Earth and, making sure that the force is on his side, begins to take over the Earth at the lev...

Do you want to make a deal with the devil? No problem, it’s not that difficult, but then you’ll have to pay with your immortal soul, but what if there’s a wa...

In a large tank where nanobots that produce alcohol live, a beautiful Nanochka appears from the nanobots that live in the human body. Baby Nanobot proposes t...

Men have always fought for the favor of their chosen one. In past centuries these were jousts and duels, in our time - fists, and in the future these will be...

Review of R. Minkoff’s film “Stuart Little” (Stuart Little, 1999), written for the magazine “If” and published in No. 7, 2000.

Curiosity, is it really such a good thing to be curious? There also seems to be nothing wrong with wanting to distinguish yourself. But if these two qualitie...

Thematic collections are a rare phenomenon in our science fiction. And the collection of “cat fiction” is an incredibly daring project. But the collection “M...

In the story “Category Zet” by Sergei Lukyanenko, the child had the ability to materialize his thoughts and desires. And it’s no wonder that the military bec...

A story about the relationship between a man (Steve Blanders) and the artificial intelligence (“Thunderer”) that controls his ship. This IR has qualities unu...

Article, 1998. A very interesting story about how Lukyanenko became infected and then became seriously “ill” with computer games. It would be nice if he hims...

A short story about how people will live in the distant future and how we must now become an adult.