If in the famous “Time Patrol” Anderson’s heroes, protecting the future from the past, act in a historical and very real world, then in the novels presented in this book, both history and reality are intertwined with magic. And where there is magic, physical and human laws do not apply there - or rather, they do, but is there a guarantee that some cunning wizard will not change them in his favor? And Holger Carlsen (“Three Hearts and Three Lions”), who was transported from the battlefields of World War II to the realm of medieval magic, and Skaflok the Mortal (“Broken Blade”), even though he himself was a pupil of good elves and treacherous trolls, and Captain Matuchek (“ Operation "Chaos", forced to descend into hell to save their daughter, they all experienced first-hand how difficult it is to survive and win in a world of distorted reality.