Golovachev V. Black Man: Book One. Science fiction novel. / M.: Young Guard. 1990. - (Library of Soviet Science Fiction). — 352 pp., 3 rubles, 100,000 copies. The book by a writer from Dnepropetrovsk Vasily Golovachev is dedicated to an eternal theme in science fiction - contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations. How can contact turn out for earthlings? The author gives his version in the novel. Space has always attracted people with its mysteries. And finally, in the third millennium, the meeting with its mysterious inhabitants that seemed so unreal became possible. But the consequences of this process were not as rosy as expected. The birth of the "Black Man" - the personification of the worst and shadow sides of human nature - threatened the very existence of the small and fragile planet Earth.