...This was the century of humanity's bayonet attack on new planets, the century when the League of Free Worlds was created. It is in these worlds that the action of the novels “Time Between Failures” and “Waterline” takes place. It is above these planets that mysterious black ships appear. None of the attempts to make contact with them or destroy them has been successful.

Another civilization? Super-civilization?

Or people, or rather, a part of humanity that has reached a new genetic level?..