Becoming a magician at the behest of a fairy-tale creature is pleasant. But the fact that the genie mistook a simple joke for a real desire is quite the opposite. And so the main character with a newfound magical talent finds himself in the past of the Earth just before the start of a terrible war that claimed tens of millions of lives. Only here Her Majesty Fate decided to push the hero into new troubles. As a result, he ends up in the hands of space slave traders, for whom wars on wild worlds are a bonanza. Events in the text relating to historical moments are mostly invented by the author. The names of the characters in the story have been changed or do not exist at all. All coincidences in the book are random.