Andrei Stolyarov's St. Petersburg fantasies are a completely incredible, unexpected side of the magical appearance of the Immortal City. The timelessness of the Ecumene, inhabited by eternal insects, artists painting worlds, and the labyrinths of old streets filled with monsters and heroes, cold beauty and the passion of eternal war. Ferns of Nothingness blooming on the Milky Way. Stargazer Percival is the guardian of the Star Radiant, a prisoner of the Tower resting on the heart of the Beast. Nervous ghosts of times past, living in Dostoevsky alleys in the ruins of the great Country of Fools. Writers-demigods, princesses of parallel worlds, painters trading in the sky, and the primitive power of the Beast rising in the torn flesh of the City...