The inhabitants of a distant world are faced with a difficult choice: to give up magic (and with it a happy, well-fed life) or dare to raise their eyes to the sky... From the dark depths of space, a ship of “aliens” arrives in the solar system - a long-dead race, even after its death, it continues to pose a threat to all living things... Humanity enters into a seemingly hopeless struggle for dominance in the Universe, which has long been divided between other forces, and there is no place for people in it... The new planet from orbit seems like a real paradise, but it turns out to be a real hell for those who is trying to land on its surface... The new author’s collection “Star Wolf” by the recognized classic of Russian science fiction Svyatoslav Loginov includes mainly stories and tales that have not been published before, as well as several “rarities” from different years. Deep space, dark, cold, but filled with the most diverse life, distant galaxies, mysterious alien civilizations, first contacts with alien intelligence - these are the themes of the collection.