A hacker from St. Petersburg wakes up in the body of a boy-slave on a distant space station. High technology, pirate rules, and a complete lack of freedom—and only his ability to hack systems can overturn the balance of power.
Ivan Igorevich Belsky, a programmer from St. Petersburg, has never seriously wondered whether people are alone in the Universe. His life was built on numbers, logic, and strict algorithms. Ivan is a hacker—so talented that his skills seem impossible. But one day, in an inexplicable way, he ends up in someone else’s body—in the body of a child. And it wouldn’t be the worst part, if not for where he comes to: a pirate space station deep in outer space. Around him is an unfamiliar, astonishingly advanced civilization, while he himself is a small boy and… a slave.