France is not a very fantastic country compared, for example, to America. Who, besides Jules Verne, can you remember among the French science fiction writers? Almost no one. Roni Sr. with his “Fight for Fire”, Maurice Renard, Gerard Klein... Who else? But there is a name in French science fiction that our domestic reader knows for sure - Francis Carsak. His novel “Robinsons of Space,” translated and published in our country at the very beginning of the 1960s, immediately brought the writer to one of the leading places in the rating of liking of Russian readers. Karsak’s next collection included a duology from the “Galactic Commonwealth” series - the novels “ Aliens from Nowhere" and "This World is Ours", telling about the struggle of united humanity with "those who extinguish the stars", strange creatures arriving from another universe. "Our homeland is space" - variations of the French classic on the theme "one among strangers, a stranger among one’s own,” the story of a space guardsman, faithful to the ideals of the empire, but by the inexorable force of circumstances he found himself among free wanderers, in a world where the ideal is freedom, and not an order dictated by the emperor. The collection is supplemented by stories published for the first time in Russian. In the corpus of Karsak's works presented in this volume, abbreviations and omissions made in previous editions have been restored.