Strelbitsky Publishing House is pleased to present the next volume of the New Library of Science Fiction. This volume is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding science fiction writer Mikhail Uspensky. His books have long become a must-have for the libraries of true lovers and connoisseurs of the fantastic genre - starting with the stories of Semyon Koryabeda and the famous adventures of the glorious hero Zhikhar, and right up to the grandiose trilogy “All this Jakch”, written in collaboration with Andrei Gennadievich Lazarchuk, and already published after the death of Mikhail Glebovich. This author’s collection includes relatively little-known works of the great science fiction writer: “The Paradise Machine,” which actually became the Master’s farewell bow to all of us, his readers; “The Rest is Fate” and “Snake’s Milk.” For those who respect good science fiction, these books will be very useful. Mikhail Glebovich had the fate of becoming a prophet in his fatherland. And if we take into account the biblical-Pushkin phrase about the fate of such prophets, then it becomes clear that this fate was very difficult, almost impossible to bear. But he chose it himself. And he carried it until the very end. Mikhail Glebovich Uspensky died on December 13, 2014 in his sleep...