Evgeny Chebalin’s novel “The Nameless Beast” and the second book in the “STATUS-QUOTA” dilogy is an artistic epic about the origin of humanity. It is introduced into the reader’s consciousness with an unprecedented stressful novelty, hacking the established mythologies and historiographies of the world. For the first time in the boundless sea of international novelism, a work of art with such unusually powerful energy, permeated with science, explodes. A variety of organisms and personalities react sharply and nervously to this literary-seismic cataclysm: The US State Department and the departments of Slavic studies of universities, politicians, art historians in Finland, Berlin, Israel, Belarus, monasticism in Jerusalem and prisoners in maximum security colonies. The range of their reactions ranges from hatred to adoration. All this is passionately reflected on the Internet. By publishing “STATUS QUOTA”, we leave it to the reader to decide for himself the assessment of such a controversial work, which has no analogues in modern world literature.