The heroes of four works by the popular classic of French science fiction F. Karsak, included in this collection, are forced to save themselves and their civilizations from natural disasters and from evil intelligent will. A modern French town transported to an alien planet... A peaceful, patriarchal culture opposing a powerful interplanetary corporation... A distant future land threatened by a cosmic catastrophe... But the human mind, multiplied by the will to win, allows one to cope with everything. Together with the previously released book “Aliens” from nowhere" this collection forms a two-volume work by F. Karsak - the first complete collection of his works in Russian.