A writer sometimes comes up with things that will never be published on paper. Like, for example, this unfinished novel with the working title “Being a Dragon...” Why? Maybe he's weak? Maybe. But it's not at all necessary. Self-repeat? Not without it. Lack of ideas? You can't say that about an unfinished thing. Maybe because the main character is a negative character (which outraged Vyacheslav Rybakov so much)? Again, no. The reason is different. Boris Natanovich Strugatsky claims that the three pillars on which science fiction stands are Miracle, Mystery, and Credibility. “Being a Dragon...” does not fit into the series “A Word about the Dragon.” Either he kills the Mystery whale on the spot in the novel “Go Catch Your Star,” or he loses his. Neither one nor the other is acceptable. What to do? Press F8 and erase from disk? It's a pity... Throw it into the net? Why not? The reader now knows the essence of the matter; the rest is in his power. If he wants to, he will read it; if he doesn’t want to, he won’t. As the joke goes, “The Ministry of Health warned him...”