Real name: Andrey Illarionov Unfortunately, everything connected with the author’s name is shrouded in mystery. Neither a biography nor, especially, a photo could be found. It is only known that he lives in Perm, is married and has children. In science fiction literature, Andrei Dvornik is, first of all, known as the author of the famous cycle about the adventures of Corporal Pornov. The cycle received a flattering review from Roman Arbitman, who wrote the afterword “The Seven Deaths of Corporal Pornov” for the first edition of the novel “Bran to the Elbow.” The novel is subtitled “an anti-Arbitman novel.” The afterword was written by the real Roman Arbitman. The book features a dashing hero, a starship, a beautiful princess, etc. The hero, however, has the rank of corporal, and with the sonorous surname Pornov, the princess is a rare mischief, and the starship...

What should Corporal Pornov do if his stellar destiny seems to have turned against him? If the rescued beautiful lady, the princess of the Silver Strings constellation, threatens in her anger to roast the brave savior like a grilled chicken? If a super-fast spaceship, a miracle of space technology, crashed like the last tin can? If the heroes of intergalactic spaces from Pornov’s team all turned into the most suspicious werewolves? There is only one thing left to do - to gather yourself into the fist of the gloves of the spacesuit and boldly emerge victorious from fifty dangerous adventures per minute...