...Suddenly, one after another, the most brilliant scientists of the Earth are dying....Poets, artists, physicists who lived on a peaceful, happy planet, long colonized by people, are disappearing under mysterious circumstances....Someone is implanting them into bodies for some reason. space station employees have biochips that stimulate aggression and cruelty. Accidents? Crimes? Or - the tricks of mysterious “strangers”, again and again interfering in the lives of earthlings? Finding out this is the work of employees of the Department of Public Psychology of the Earth, who are usually called simply “Seekers of the Strange”...