If a writer begins to identify himself with his literary hero, this can lead to the most unpredictable consequences. Kim Kononov, the creator of the next continuation of the famous saga about the adventures of Konon the Barbarian, is gradually losing the boundary between fiction and reality, beginning to look at the world around him through the eyes of his almost namesake and committing actions quite worthy of a frantic Cimmerian. And when the excited brain of the writer is inhabited by an alien, the galactic wanderer Trixie, who provided Kim with unlimited physical capabilities in exchange for “living space,” the enemies of the St. Petersburg intellectual can only sympathize...