The heroes of this collection fly to distant stars to make contact with representatives of other civilizations. They return from an unimaginably distant place and try to adapt to new earthly realities. They participate in intricate spy-bureaucratic games on the verge of common sense. They actively fight obscurantism and all kinds of social evil. They fantasize, experience incredible adventures, emerge victorious from dangerous situations. And - no matter what pictures of the future Stanislav Lem paints: victorious communism or multi-level chaos, universal voluntary triumph of reason or grotesque forced artificial “happiness” - his novels are always in demand and loved, because in He puts the main focus on Man and his search for his place in the community of equal, strong, free people.