Gennady Prashkevich’s new book consists of two novels dedicated to the distant future of earthly civilization: “The Helmsman’s Book” and “Tsar-Terror”. Vivid images, rapid twists of the plot, brilliant command of the literary language - it is no coincidence that Prashkevich is called a brilliant stylist. The futurological utopia “The Helmsman’s Book” is a wide canvas showing several sections of some supposed future. Sections separated by many, many centuries. In Rus' in the 13th century, collections of church and secular laws were called helmsman's books. “The Helmsman’s Book” by Gennady Prashkevich is a kind of set of laws of the future world. Peering into the grandiose shadow falling in our time from the supposed future, the writer makes a bold attempt to predict the development of society, talk about upcoming global changes, relying on the law of the historical spiral, on the periodic repetition of forms of social organization. “The Helmsman’s Book” is a multifaceted philosophical work. Not limiting himself to considering a single general trend, a linear-progressive vector of human development, the writer demonstrates several probable scenarios for the development of events at once, warns of monstrous catastrophes and global problems awaiting earthly civilization, tries to suggest possible ways out of dead-end situations of the future, while operating with an amazing number of characters and quasi-documents. And the alarming thought remains in my head: “It could be...”