The works of the American science fiction writer Alfred Bester included in the collection - the action-packed and fascinating novel "The Man Without a Face", as well as short stories - depict worlds enriched with a telepathic component, inhabited by people with extrasensory perception, who are subject to time, space, living and inanimate nature. The author combines hopes for creating a happy society based on the use of scientific and technological progress and the moral improvement of people with a number of unresolved socio-political problems. For fans of science fiction.

Contents: The Man Without a Face (translation by E Korotkova)

Stories The phenomenon of disappearance (translation by Yu. Abyzov) Bright star, early star (translation by E. Korotkova) Night vase with a flower border (translation by E. Korotkova) Pi-man (translation by V. Bakanov) Old man (translation by V. Bakanov)