The author of the book, the famous Soviet submariner Vice Admiral G.K. Vasiliev, during the Great Patriotic War in 1942–1943. As an assistant commander on th...

The book contains about 3,750 famous quotes and catchwords, primarily those that are actively used in our time.

A new anthology of world science fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois, presents the best examples of the genre. For the first time in Russian! For those who are...

The book contains more than 1,300 phrases of the great wit Oscar Wilde - about life and death, about men and women, about clothes and fashion, about art, rel...

Stanislav Lem. The author of legendary works on which generations of science fiction fans grew up - "Solaris", "Eden", "The Star Diaries of Ijon the Quiet" -...

Tsar Alexander I died in 1825 in Taganrog, far from the capital of the empire - he died unexpectedly, when it seemed his reign was still destined for many ye...

Jack Serotonin is a guide to a strange and dangerous marvelous park, where leaving the intended route means finding your death.

An unprecedented thing happened in the Zone! The whole world was excited. And now the agents of the great powers are racing, trying to be the first in the ri...

Those born in the Zone become stalkers while still in the womb. Therefore, Mika the Jumper was not too surprised when it turned out that despite his young ag...

1957. A former Nazi and a former concentration camp prisoner accidentally meet in a Vienna hotel. The awakened memories of both the executioner and the victi...

Reality always appears to me through a haze of words. I will sacrifice authenticity for the sake of a successful phrase and am ready to sacrifice truth for t...