When the Earth became uninhabitable, humanity found salvation at the Station - a giant industrial asteroid controlled by higher entities, the gods of the Pantheon. But this world is fragile: the Pantheon is at war with Totality, a corporation of artificial intelligences that once broke away from it. A temporary truce comes, and Jack Forster, who spent seven years in war and in captivity, returns home to the Station. He is accompanied by Hugo Fist, a virtual creature in the guise of a wooden clown, created to hunt down and destroy hostile artificial intelligence. Soon these two will be drawn into a conspiracy of the gods, threatening death not only for them, but for all of humanity. For the first time in Russian!