A and B sat on the pipe — a fantastic novel by Sergey Tambovsky, the first book of the “A and B” cycle, genre: alternative history, social science fiction. A hot July of 1975. After eighth grade, weeding, haymaking, planting seedlings, and all that. Our hero from the 21st century is swept there—how he will survive and what he’ll do, as they say these days, only time will tell. And back then the signs of the era were such as: a joint flight of Soyuz-Apollo, a security meeting in Helsinki, Pepsi-Cola from Novorossiysk, the hockey super-series of our clubs across the ocean, and TV shows about Mighty Mouse, Judy the monkey, and the dog Lassie.