One forgetful God accidentally commanded the planet to be a ball, and... a cube. He commanded and fell asleep for a couple of million years. God is sleeping, younger gods are trying to cope with the situation, and life on the cube planet flows and develops. A boy named Shago decides to go along the Forbidden Road to places where even the soldiers and generals cannot reach. They say there’s not even air there... The story “Simpler than a Cube” partially overlaps with the “Mutangels” saga. The Mutangels series is a finalist for the Literary Prize. V.P. Krapivina 2015 and winner of the All-Russian competition "Book" 2016 A drawing by Holda (Ekaterina Zakhrova) is used on the cover. The full (paper) version of the book also includes stories from the series “Cella and...” (the story “The Ninth Way of Eight” was included in the Long List of the Future Tense Prize, 2018)