Walking out in the morning for a quick beer—and right by your own entrance you run into enemy tanks. That’s not the kind of meeting anyone would call cheerful. Who knew that this promising encounter would turn out so tragically: it involved your own double from not-so-distant future, who arrived with an invaluable gift—four books you haven’t even written yet—and with a portable time machine besides. And he suggested conducting one purely personal experiment. And as a result—horrifying catastrophe struck space and time, turning Earth into a world where superpowers crashed headfirst together and scattered brains across the continents. But the merciless wheel of history can still be tried to turn back…