Crime fiction, essayistic fiction, and finally, simply realism, mixed with humor and fantastic adventures of heroes, makes this book stand out from everything written by Gennady Prashkevich. A strange secret connects our past and present and undoubtedly influences the distant future (“The Knight’s Box”); revolutionary upheavals in society dramatically change every person (“Breathing with spirits and mists”); the same revolutionary upheavals may not just change the history of an individual or of all humanity, they shake the foundations of the entire Universe (“The Romanian made a discovery”). After all, the bullet flies and flies “at a speed that exceeds all recent inventions.” The book includes one of the writer’s earliest science fiction stories, “The World Where I’m Home,” a typical example of a genre that is now almost degenerate.