This novel has a difficult and sad history of creation." This is a socio-psychological deconstruction of hit-and-miss fantasy in the form of a science-fiction regional saga. "Children of the Gray Wind" would be more correctly called "Daughters of the Gray Wind", because it is precisely the three leaders of the earthly resistance organized and completed all the work. And where the men could crumble in despair, run away or die heroically, the women remained on their feet and did what they thought was necessary. Not for the first time. , plays the entire background of this city and these people - after the Decembrists, after the Revolutions, after the Blockade, after everything that happened in the 20th century." Russell D. Jones