Anna Starobinets has been called the “Russian Stephen King”, the “Russian Neil Gaiman” and the “Russian Orwell”. But this writer is simply special. With perhaps the best imagination in all current Russian fiction. With a unique flair for phobias, mania, pain points. And with an almost extrasensory ability to find gaps in the everyday world from which a draft of a scary miracle is drawn. "Icarus' Iron" is seven exciting stories about a changing reality. In this reality, you can, having undergone a simple operation, become an exemplary family man, but inadvertently lose your soul. A longed-for trip to the capital of the world turns into a road to hell, a failed screenwriter, instead of meeting with producers, ends up in the epicenter of an alien invasion, an awakened gene threatens to mold either an angel or a demon out of a human doll, and it is still unknown what goals the authors of the computer game for children. A lot of things can happen in the familiar world, seen through the special vision of Anna Starobinets!