Now few people remember this, but some 30 years ago everyone read science fiction - from pioneers to pensioners. And not at all because the authors called to technical universities or to the stars. Readers have always loved interesting stories about ordinary people in unusual circumstances. Nikolai Gornov, an Omsk journalist and writer, is one of the few who remembers this. And he still doesn’t differentiate between science fiction and literature. The texts that made up his third book, written over the past five years, can hardly be called fiction in today's understanding. Rather, these are simply interesting stories in which we see life in all its fantastic diversity. He writes about what is happening to us today and, quite possibly, will happen tomorrow. Unless we try to change our lives, of course... “The foggy autumn, when the future genius of the financial market Romka Berezkin was born, was also unusually cold, and in September the first frosts were noted even in the relatively southern Volgograd, where in the seventh month of a difficult pregnancy Romka’s mother, Svetlana Berezkina, came from her northern Ust-Kut. If Svetlana knew that it makes no sense for her to count on the support of her Volgograd relatives, perhaps she would not move..."