Luciano Borgotta, nicknamed Tartaglia, is a man with a difficult fate. A young puppet maker from the remote planet Borgo. Neuropast, a master of contact impersonation, who has toured half of the Galaxy. An inmate of the notorious Mei-Gile prison on the primeval Kemchug; later, junior executor. Director of the Vertep theater, who led a group of serfs belonging to Count Maltsov, a landowner-philanthropist. Person under investigation at the Voodun resort of Kitta; a slave of the Pompilian guard legate Gaius Octavianus Thumidus, a rower in the running compartment of a galley. What next? The stars do not give an answer. “Ecumene” by G. L. Oldie is a large-scale canvas for which the authors have been preparing for many years, a cosmic symphony where the destinies of people are presented in on a truly universal scale.