Clive Стейплз Lewis (1898-1963) is the known British writer, author of famous cycle of "Chronicle Нарнии"."I named it a fairy-tale, that a reader was not misled by the first heads, and he knew at once, that for a book he opened", - not without a cunning Clive Lewis told in the preface to the novel of "Мерзейшая power". However and an author intentionally misleads a reader the sly warning, that fully corresponds to the spirit novel, in that all not what seems, where fog shrouds both a city and human souls, and where it is very unsimple to be dug down to the true.A young sociologist Mark Стэддок starts work in State Research Institute of Laboratory Researches, complete iridescent hopes. It would seem is work of dream in the comfortable English small town with the wonderful forest on outskirts. Besides attention of scientific husbands is extraordinarily complimentary him, elaborative innovation methodologies on the improvement of human breed. And only gradually realization comes to him, that after the walls of majestic temple of science very strange things are created.