Sergey Sinyakin is a Volgograd science fiction writer, writer-philosopher, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, winner of many Russian literary awards. His fantastic stories are extraordinary. These are more like “sad fairy tales for adults.” There are no star wars, elves and wizards in them. On the pages of Sinyakin’s books, our contemporaries coexist with Roman legionnaires, a Chechen shepherd talks with aliens. The collection of stories “The Book of Stranger Things” are truly small literary masterpieces that touch the soul. Sergei Sinyakin in his works raises questions of good and evil, nobility and meanness, the root cause of betrayal.