Vladimir Dmitrievich Mikhailov, at one of his “fantastic” seminars on the Riga seaside, said the following instructive words: “before you print anything, you need to think carefully about whether in ten years you will not be ashamed of what you printed.” It is not known how the aspiring writers present at the seminar perceived this phrase, but these words are one hundred percent applicable to the work of Mikhailov himself. Take any of his books, open it, reread it, and you will be convinced that such fiction can be reread at any age. Whatever he wrote about - about space, about Earth, about the past, present and future - the heroes of his books are you and me, with all our joys, troubles and anxieties. His books have dynamics, a sharp, exciting plot, and a smart, fantastic idea, but the main thing about them is different. Mikhailov's fiction is humane. This is its enduring value.