“Never talk to strangers...” advised a well-known character in Bulgakov’s novel. But the clairvoyant Evruchery Makritsyn and the biologist Apollo Gansky, the heroes of Anatoly Mayev’s hoax novel “The Geneticist,” met in a grocery store, got to talking, got to know each other, and even, one might say, became friends. And what came of it? Nothing good. In fact, one cannot consider an attempt to clone the Leader and a stay in a madhouse to be considered as such... Is our life bedlam? Or is it just theater? You and I, dear readers, are looking for answers to these and other questions...