There are no people - we are surrounded by ideas, phantoms, shadows and animated things. The dollar exchange rate becomes a man, a woman turns out to be a probabilistic anomaly, the face of the world turns into its wrong side... The book “The World Inside Out” includes new stories and short stories by Marina and Sergei Dyachenko. Each story exists on its own, but together, like elements of a mosaic, they form a single statement - if you read everything in order. The collection ends with the script for the film “Inhabited Island,” directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk based on the famous story by the Strugatsky brothers!