Black Time

Einsof is a mysterious infinite-dimensional object that becomes a kind of “crossroads” of the branches of the Dendrocontinuum—it also becomes a point where the interests of the Upgraders converge, who decided to “improve” the universe in the way each of them understands it. If Einsof turns into yet another black hole, a war will begin in which humanity will be only a grain of sand under the feet of giants. Understanding this, Klim Malgin, Aristarkh Zhelezovsky, and their friends in the present and the future try to stop the deadly experiments. But the trouble is that those they are protecting—guided by the dark will of Danil Shalamov, who has practically ceased to be human—begin a real hunt for the Resistance’s participants.