Fiction, philosophy, detective story - in the collection of the popular American science fiction writer F. Dick (1928-1982) are presented novels in which the writer develops such topics as the mystery of controlling a person from the outside, time travel, personal and illogical the law of chance, game theory. Sharp, dynamically developing plots, a whirlwind of unfolding events, characters full of life - will satisfy the taste of even the most sophisticated reader.

By the middle of the 22nd century, a new, hitherto unprecedented social system had been established on Earth. The strengthened “Forces of Morality and Order”—abbreviated as MORS—put an end to the era of “former wastefulness,” destroyed “sinfulness and corruption,” and regulated the life of the common man minute by minute. One of the newly-minted guardians of public morality favored by the authorities, Allan Purcell, does not immediately understand that the life of himself and others like him has begun to resemble existence in a huge torture chamber...