“In Olga Larionova’s story “Short Business Visit,” Contact occurs in a very traditional way—for SF, of course. The appearance of a star alien, the first meeting, the search for ways to communicate... And precisely because many works have already been written about all this, Larionova, a recognized master of the genre, does not even try to find any fresh ideas here. Something else is important to her. Who is he, the “star Cossack”? And how did the Earth and our whole life seem to him? Moreover, it is not today’s life, but the one to come, to which we are only groping the approaches... the love that the “star Cossack” speaks of is precisely one of those main properties that will allow us, sooner or later, to feel ourselves as one humanity with a single human morality, with a universal morality.” (From the preface by An. Britikov “Let’s talk about mirrors”)