This one of the author's most famous novels captures an amazing era when the magic of life was clearly and clearly dissected by science. The world was taking off, it was crowded on the planet, and the people changing it were ready to gain the capabilities of the gods. This book is about young physicists, “romantics of science”, about love, betrayal and friendship, about the life of wizards from the sixties, lying on the frontier of earthly civilization, where the thunderstorm was born