You know, it’s a trend, however. Or tradition - whichever you prefer. Winter is the New Year, spring is the time of love, summer is a long-awaited vacation, autumn is a new collection of stories by Slavic science fiction writers, friends of Andrei Belyanin. This is the third one, by the way. The faces are all familiar, but among them there are those who are making their debut in this company of like-minded people, and those whose work Russian readers have discovered thanks to Andrey’s good taste and restlessness. Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, of course, Russia - do you think it’s easy to raise the literary unity of our Slavic peoples alone? Andrey has done a colossal amount of work, but he is not going to stop there or rest on his laurels. And he is getting ready, led by the call of kindred blood, to hit the road again - for now to the Balkans, well, we’ll see there...

CONTENTS: ANDREY BELYANIN - What do the demons want? Translation from Polish by Margarita Bobrovskaya Pork revolt. Translation from Polish by Margarita BobrovskayaRevision. Translation from Polish by Margarita BobrovskayaY-files. Declassified materials. Translation from Polish by Margarita BobrovskayaKiller. Translation from Polish by Andrey BelyaninVITALY ZYKOV - Knowledge is power! Gamzar talesCHRISTO POSTAKOV - Invasion. Translation from Bulgarian by Nikolay TellalovELENA BYCHKOVA, NATALIA TURCHANINOVA - Glorioza SuperbaNIKOLAY BASOV - Room, and no fictionFRANTISHKA VERBENSKA. Translation from Czech by Josef RarahJay FeatherTime of the RiverNIKOLAI TELLALOV. Translation from Bulgarian by the authorHeavenly minesHard wingsALEXANDER RUDAZOV - Whom do magicians fearNATALIA TATARINTSEVA - Angelica and the philosopherANDREY BELYANIN, GALINA CHERNAYA - Cat for da Vinci