Partly the genre of this book is mash-up (historical and mythological heroes and events from an unexpected perspective), partly it is AI. Scientists find a way to visit the past for information, while they recruit some obscure creatures to help them, and they become their guides along the corridor of time. In the process of work, it turns out that the history of mankind that they have discovered does not coincide with that known from textbooks and it urgently needs to be saved from a strange chronoclasm, so as not to lose the present. This is being done by a secret organization on a space station in the distant (from us) future. Corrections turn out to be endless: one amendment inevitably leads to another, and sooner or later you have to answer for any interference in the world system. So scientists discover that initially a seemingly small but critical error crept into their calculations: they considered the wrong creatures to be conductors!