The book by the famous Soviet science fiction writer I. I. Varshavsky, a representative of the generation of the sixties, includes science fiction and humorous stories and stories familiar to readers from the collections “Molecular Cafe”, “The Dream Shop”, “The Man Who Saw the Anti-World” "and others. The writer’s works belong to the genre of alternative fiction, which does not accept cliches, standards, worn-out images, depicting reality from an unusual, unexpected angle.