This collection includes five works written between 2012 and 2019: the stories “The Beginning of the End” and “The Road Home,” as well as the stories “Winter,” “The Year 2077: On Our Own Land,” and “Opportunity.” Correct mistake". These works are not connected by one cycle or series, with the exception of the story “The Road Home” and its direct continuation - the story “Winter”. However, all these things are united by the fact that they describe our world - planet Earth, in which a global atomic war broke out between Russia and the United States. In all five works, the war occurred at approximately the same time; in all there are no mutants, zombies and magical “radiation” that continues to kill all living things, even after years and decades. This is where the parallels end. If in “The Beginning of the End” the war was started by Russia, in which the fascists came to power, and in “The Road Home” the main character simply does not know who struck first, then in “2077” the aggressor is the overseas Citadel of Goodness and Democracy, beloved by “our” liberals. . This is not "Metro" or "Fallout"; there are no stalkers in funny gas masks here; no one grows claws, wings or a second head. But there are aliens who arrived on Earth half a century after the war that destroyed human civilization (the story “The Opportunity to Correct a Mistake”). Drama, realism, action and social fiction - the reader will find all this in the post-apocalyptic collection “The Land After.”