He is an ordinary junior researcher at an orbital station of relic radiation, a genetically modified Komsomol member, and just a good person. She is a humanoid android on a nuclear battery, and a bit of a bitch at heart. Together they can do a lot! The adventures of Georgy Verkhasov, known in everyday life as Zhora, and his faithful companion Svetlana continue!
Around lies the territory of the Union—lands overgrown with mutated crops, where evil chickens and nasty pigs run about. Underfoot, deep in the soil, cows dig their dens. And ahead lies the road to one of the largest settlements of the surviving civilization. But what’s up above? Up above, in the cosmic emptiness, the two of them await another city—wonderful, marvelous, full of lost technologies and unrealized hopes. Nitronsk. But for now, they’re going forward, not upward. For now. And only for now.