The collection includes stories by the American science fiction writer Roger Zelazny, who is very popular all over the world, but is still not well known to the Soviet reader.

CONTENTS: Editorial Preface BOUQUET FIRST The Maiden and the Beast (translation by I. Grechin) Bullfighting (translation I. Chubakha) Love: an imaginary quantity (translation by I. Grechin) When the gods are powerless (translation by I. Kremnev) The Man Who Loved Fayoli (translation by I. Grechin) Steel Leech (translation by V. Fedorov) Angel, Dark Angel (translation by A. Tishinina) BOUQUET SECONDHelping hand (translation by E. Ryzhikova) Milady on diodes (translation by G. Korchagin) Museum exhibit (translation by A. Zhuravlev) BOUQUET THREE Rose for Ecclesiastes (translation by M. Tarasyev) One moment of a storm (translation by M. Sterligov) Light of Sorrow ( translation by M. Sterligov) Nine hundred and ninety-nine eyes of the Night (translation by I. Kremnev) Lucifer (translation by S. Solovyov) About the translators A brief history of the “Method-87” partnership

Compiled by: A.N. TishininForeword: V.P .Reliktova and I.E.PetrushkinaPublished with the participation of the Orion Center for Scientific Research