The Doctor and his new companion, Gisella, escape from the robot agent and the bringers of terror. The Doctor intends to destroy the crystal of eternity, but...

The autumn of 1888, which went down in the world history of crime as the “Autumn of the Knife”... In the London area of Whitechapel, the “invisible man”, the...

This story was first published in the collection “Six Stories” (Six Stories, 1997), which was released in a limited edition of 1,100 copies. Later, after pro...

This is an amateur translation of the famous story by Stephen Millhauser; unfortunately, very few works of the American writer have been translated by publis...

Inspector Zhang of the Singapore Police Force is horrified when a woman falls from a roof in front of him one evening. But what at first appears to be a simp...

The story “Under the Weather” [2011] was added to the second edition of the collection Full Dark, No Stars (“Darkness and Nothing More”). It was not included...

Having returned home one day, Stephen Davis discovers a note in which his wife Diana writes that she is tired of them living together and wants a divorce. It...

In any area related to human influence - from politics to mass communication, from pedagogy to psychotherapy, there is a growing danger of disguised and inte...

Let's visit, together with his heroes, on Mercury, in the prospectors' camp, and try to remove the veil from a mystery that has been waiting in the wings for...

Over a thousand years of cosmic expansion, humanity has settled throughout the Orion spiral arm. But silvery non-humanoid symbiotes, which people called ghos...

A small spaceship crashes while passing through a space-time tunnel and is forced to land on Pluto. While waiting for rescuers to arrive, the astronauts find...

In this universe, the force of gravity is unstable, and therefore the earthly ship, which once flew past the Nebula, simply fell apart. Those who survived bu...