“There are crowds of thousands at the cosmodrome, the police are pushing back onlookers behind a hastily erected barrier. However, this does not apply to us....

“Kostyan woke up from the sound of the radio, which Baton turned on at full volume. As usual, gymnastics were taught in the morning. “Now me and Rabinovich h...

“The call came when Andrei Petrovich had already lost all hope. - Hello, I’m at the announcement. Do you give literature lessons? Andrei Petrovich peered at ...

“I enter the classroom, stumble over the threshold and have difficulty maintaining my balance. The usual laughter is heard in the group: last time, I remembe...

“Rasp rested his manipulators on his sides, critically examined Def and said thoughtfully: “Four thousand three hundred and nineteen years, six months and tw...

“On the fourth day of meltwater, old Rowannik’s time came. Rowannik has already exchanged eight full circles and three shares of the ninth—few people have li...

“Having reached the city outskirts, the antigrav slowed down and began to descend. “I recommend visiting...” the pilot began as usual. He broke off the sente...

“On a starry Christmas night, stepping barefoot in the snow, Luck left Honest Archambault’s circus. She got out from under the canopy of the big top, stood f...

“Narrowing his already narrow, unkind eyes, the Chinese carefully shuffled the deck. He completed the shuffle with a dashing cut-in and moved the deck in a s...

“According to the ship’s time, the radiogram of the “urgent” category arrived after midnight, when both crew members were already asleep. The code accompanyi...

“Red-haired Fishel, the grandson of the old shochet Isaac, came running as soon as I opened the shop.” “Sholom, Uncle Ephraim,” Fishel greeted, without even ...

You are making your way through enemy-occupied territory in the same squad with Death himself... Can you imagine? Okay, then let's move on: let's say you wer...