Writers tend to love practical jokes. I am no exception.

The “Argentum Key” was distributed on the FIDO network as the idea for my new novel with the question: “Somehow it reminds me of some kind of book...” Most of the readers, to my joy, appreciated the joke . But there were also those who hastened to accuse me of intended plagiarism, and there were also those who declared the plot new and without any analogies in literature. So, I conceived a novel with such a plot...