The Cyborg and His Ranger

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Not everyone in life finds work to their liking. Forester Zhenya is definitely lucky:

he has a favorite job. Curly forest, bright little mushrooms, grandmothers in headscarves… bliss!

But there are days when everything is completely out of hand. On the forester’s assigned territory, first poachers get audacious, then predators breed too much, and then an alien infection shows up. Leisure doesn’t please either. Old friends start yawning from the very beginning of the conversation, new acquaintances promise nothing but trouble, and there is absolutely no personal life. Hurry up and get to service—he wants to pound the rights! But every request the authorities answer with: “Don’t get cheeky.” And how can a forester keep order if even the mushroom-hunting grandmothers are better equipped than he is? If only Zhenya had an assistant— a battle-ready cyborg—then they’d put things right in no time. Not a single fir tree, not a single wild boar would slip into the hands of those crooks unnoticed.

Zhenya really needs a helper—someone of imposing stature, strong, obedient, and silent—who makes people respect the owner just with their presence. But how little Zhenya knew about cyborgs… What they don’t write in the instructions for cybernetic organisms, what weapon you should take mushrooming with, what’s best to use for making coffee—and what for baking pies and who the grandmothers were in the past. Listen to Olga Gromyko’s new book.