The hero of the science fiction novel is a fifth-year student at the Department of Nuclear Physics, Andrey wakes up in an unfamiliar apartment. More precisely, the apartment is familiar, but the atmosphere in it is completely different. House, address, date, city - everything is as usual, but the apartment is not the same. The strangeness continues when he decides to go out and walk around the city - the city has also changed beyond recognition, moreover, he meets people who are closely acquainted with him, but whom he himself sees for the first time in his life. After some time, Andrey realizes that he has found himself in a parallel universe. But the problems don't end there. The next day, the hero again finds himself in a parallel world, and later finds out how multifaceted space-time is. What happened to his previous life, where did his friends, work and hometown go? The novel “The First Projection” provides answers to these questions. When creating the cover, I used the image suggested by the author.