In 2008, the anthology “Heroes. Another Reality" was recognized as the best thematic collection according to the World of Fantasy magazine. The story continues: leading writers from Russia and abroad develop the theme on the pages of a new book. Henry Lyon Oldie and Andrey Kivinov, Vyacheslav Rybakov and Dalia Truskinovskaya, Victor Tochinov and Lev Gursky - these names have long been familiar and deservedly loved by fans of the science fiction and detective genres. The writers offer their versions of the development of events familiar to us from the works of Tolkien and the Strugatskys, Olesha and Chekhov, Conan Doyle and Swift. Welcome to the universe of literary games, the universe of “alternative classics”!