Curt Longson, a space historian, wakes up one fine morning on board a strange ship heading to the outer planets of the solar system. On this ship there are several thousand passengers in pink and blue pajamas and not a single crew member. What is it - an automated cruise ship, a sanatorium for the mentally ill, a new type of prison or a religious commune? And where should the journey of the crazy ship end?.. The Earth, under the control of supercorporations, prospers, but on the planets colonized by humanity, uprisings and rebellions flare up again and again, and the Governments are looking in vain for the legendary hero of the Resistance - the mysterious anarchist Hiob... At the end of the seventieth millennium AD , only a few regions of the earth's surface remained inhabited. People live under artificial domes and do not risk going out onto the dead Earth parched by the sun's rays. But Andres Ramses, the only and last librarian of the largest library on the planet, is forced to flee into the desert from the intrigues and internecine wars of various political parties hunting for information about the possible future of the Earth. He hopes to find the answer to the main question of his time - is it possible to prevent the death of the planet and all humanity?..