Mysterious memory card? The disappearance of a friend... Are aliens really involved? Dynamic science fiction. A crumpled mailing envelope, the envelope flap is sealed. Pale blue lines of a ballpoint pen in clumsy handwriting... Silvery balls of solder droplets on the worn linoleum... The heavy tripod of a telescope mount on the floor by the window. Instead of a telescope, there is a rectangular box with a cooling radiator and a photographic lens... An antique bookshelf, sagging under the weight of books: I. S. Shklovsky, “The Universe, Life, Mind”, B. Stroustrup, “The C++ Programming Language”, D. Carnegie, “How to stop worrying and start living”... Sixteen megabyte SmartMedia memory card. On the label with a red felt-tip pen it is written “For Victor K.”... Crying in the telephone receiver, hang-up beeps...