Phoenix Sapiens

The book tells about a fictional future—up to the next ice age. With some stretching, it can be called science fiction, since there isn’t actually much fantasy in it. Formally, the book belongs to the genre “post-apocalypse,” or simply post-ap. A prosperous civilization, comfortably dozing in the comfort created by previous generations, collapsed in an instant because of something that seemed like mere nonsense. Of course, humanity revived (as the title suggests), but with a long delay. The apocalypse itself is only the backdrop of the plot, though it shows quite realistic possible scenarios of the collapse of a globalized world. The book mainly focuses on a small company of its heroes—travelers, seekers, investigators, rescuers—cheerful, active, and in their own way happy in any situation.

Boris Evgenievich Shtern is a scientist and journalist, a well-known Russian astrophysicist, Doctor of Sciences, lead research associate of the laboratory studying rare processes in the Experimental Physics Department of the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. One of the founders and the chief editor of the popular in the scientific community newspaper “Troitsky Variant.” Organizer of the portal Scientific.ru, head of the project “Who is who in Russian science,” initiator of creating a corps of independent scientific experts.

Sound engineer — Emil Satbakov. Cover — Pavel Kungurtsev.