One day, Vlad Snegir, a fashionable science fiction writer and frivolous young man, finds out that he is now a knight of the Order of the Holy Bestseller. Considering this a bad joke, Vlad was mistaken. Because ahead of him were nine circles of a very peculiar “process”, friendship with the Silver Harpy, transformation into the Best of Men, an acquaintance with the Bookworm and a business proposal to “kill the hero”. The novel, largely devoted to the secrets of literary creativity, is strange, surprising, unexpected, thoroughly imbued with poetry and a deeply personal “optimistic tragifarce.”