When the Screens Are Silent

8 hrs. 28 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexander Shalimov

Narrator Dmitry Savchenko

Description

These are stories and novellas about resilience, courage, doubts, and love in a distant—and perhaps not so distant—era when a person will tame volcanoes and send the first photon ships into the unknown reaches of Outer Space.

Contents and description:
01. “The Price of Immortality”
Mars inhabitants learned to extend life up to three thousand years. For this, they must constantly remain in a zone of continuous radioactive exposure. But the supplies of radioactive material run out. Then the Martians decided to destroy Earth…
02. “Internship”
A unified global power grid. Two artificial suns: the Siberian-Greenland one and the Antarctic one. At the central control post there is a “red button.” Why?..
03. “Gravity Concentrator”
The brilliant inventor Jonathan Dipp constructed a gravity concentrator and, with the help of his friend Steve, sold a working model of the concentrator to Mr. Gulf orby Jr., the owner of a concern producing automatons. True, the model wasn’t fully operational, but Mr. Galforby never found that out…
04. “When the Screens Go Silent”
Can you defeat time?.. When will the Columbuses of the first stellar routes return to Earth?.. The heroine of the novella believes she will meet her friend again—the one she sent on a star voyage…
05. “Prisoners of the Arzakh el Crater”
The true story of the first American lunar expedition. The rocket crashed during landing. The U.S. government preferred not to rescue the surviving astronaut, but to classify the flight as secret…