In this novel there are no miscreants, magic, techno-magic, and this is not fan fiction, alas! What does it look like most? There is a genre, techno-thriller, which perhaps best characterizes this text. What more can be said? It’s better for the readers to say, they have the floor: “But the text still doesn’t reach the level of an action movie. More precisely, this is probably an action movie for non-humanitarians. :) However, my wife, a pure humanist, mastered the text, stating that she was not at all bored.” “Oh, it smelled like something long forgotten. Soviet science fiction of the early 60s, they don’t write like that now. But in vain. In my opinion, you managed to write in the mood of that time, when many believed in a bright future without quotes. This feeling was absorbed somehow immediately... Moreover, the short story compares favorably with works from those times in the absence of excessive pathos.” A necessary remark. The text contains a mention of an energy station that uses the focusing of solar rays by the Earth's atmosphere. Despite all its apparent improbability, this is not science fiction: you can google the text: KBU, section of innovative technologies. The intention in this short story was to present a hero who is not a hero in life at all . At first glance, he’s just a slightly unlucky person, although he himself doesn’t think so. He always gets into trouble and really attracts trouble. While carrying out a routine assignment, he manages to get into history. But on the other hand, he’s still lucky! Fate protects Vitaly, because he can always not even find, but literally grope for a way out of a difficult situation. And fate does this not out of harm and a desire to spoil things, but just the opposite, if a person has potential, if he is able to learn, he is not afraid of alterations.