In your hands you have a truly rare find—a collection of evolutionary science fiction in which well-known authors ponder what the world might have become if evolution, at key moments, had taken a different turn. Much of the inspiration for these stories came from the two-volume scientific work by the famous anthropologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky, “The Missing Link.”
Here you will find modeling of development paths that never happened—on Earth and in other worlds. Untraveled junctions along the evolutionary path. A forward-looking view of possible outlines of the future. The classification of dragons, attempts to explain the nature of vampires, unexpected interpretations of the myths of the Nightingale the Robber and Medusa the Gorgon.
This is pure, truly scientific science fiction from a whole constellation of masters of the genre: Yevgeny Lukin, Oleg Divov, Svyatoslav Loginov, Anton Pervushin, Alexander Gromov, Vladimir Vasiliev.