The collection presents Michael Moorcock's previously unpublished novel The Crimson Game, stories by Ursula Le Guin, Mervyn Peake, Keith Lomer and stories by recognized masters of Anglo-American fiction, awarded the highest literary awards - Hugo and Nebula. New translations , uninhibited non-standard form and style, and - Something Strange, dark and sinister, which invariably meets the heroes in the intricate labyrinths of a reality brilliantly constructed by the authors.

Contents: Something. Strange... (instead of a foreword) Michael Moorcock. THE Crimson GAME (novel, translation by S. Ginzburg) Keith Lomer. DESTRUCTION TEST (story, translation by S. Ginzburg) Mervyn Peake. THE BOY AND THE DARKNESS (story, translation by A. Prokhorov) Ursula Le Guin. BREAST AND SLOWER EMPIRES... (story, translation by S. Ginzburg) I'LL THROW THE DICE (stories) Samuel Delaney. Time is like a spiral of semi-precious stones (translation by S. Ginzburg) James Ballard. Cloud Sculptors of Coral D (translation by E. Garkavi) Harlan Ellison. I need to scream, but I don’t have a mouth (translation by Sh. Kurtishvili) Gordon Dixon. A Dignified Death (translation by S. Ginzburg) Larry Niven. Shortly before the end (translation by I. Nathanson) Harlan Ellison. Little Maggie - Money Eyes (translation by S. Ginzburg) Ursula Le Guin. Things (translation by V. Kormilitsyn) Cyril Kornblatt. Words of the Guru (translation by P. Vyaznikov) Harlan Ellison. Repent, Harlequin (translation by Sh. Kurtishvili) Jen Wolf. Horror horrors of war (translation by P. Vyaznikov) Fritz Leiber. Let me roll the dice (translation by A. Briskina)