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... “Across the parking lot, bouncing on speed bumps, an extended Sobol with a reinforced suspension, an extended wheelbase, a wide white stripe on the puffy blue sides and a raised logo in the form of a small rodent, stylized as a postman's bag. Last year, the Technical Support Service received five of these machines. No give or take - courier delivery. It’s unlikely that anyone would think that instead of neat blue parcels, in an unremarkable postal van, half a platoon of soldiers from the “Klin” special operations detachment is hiding, hunched over...”