Punktown

The "Panktaun" cycle includes 9 stories:

01. Reflections of Ghosts
Drew is an artist. He creates clones of himself, changing their appearance and minds as he needs. Normally, his clones’ intellect doesn’t exceed the level of a starfish. But this time he created something special...

02. A Season for Skinning
A year ago, something happened to Kolya, and after that she decided to erase this episode from her memory. But later she started to be haunted by anxiety connected to her ex-husband—who also ended up erased from the memories...

03. Wakizashi
A very subtle psychological game about the clash of alien minds with the worldview of a person who is ashamed of their roots. And the reverence with which aliens—utterly different in nature—treat their traditions gives the main character an impulse to honor his own culture. After all, alien ideas of honor and dignity aren’t that far from our own. A story of revenge, love, and the search for one’s own roots.

04. Precious Metal
One layer of Panktaun’s population is made up of former factory robots. Having lost their jobs at the auto plant, they live an illegal life in the city underground, setting up production of various goods— the main one being the electronic drug "kaifer." And where there’s drug dealing, there’s violence...

05. Heart for Heart
The former prostitute Nimbus and the installation artist Tyl, thrown aside by life, are trying to make ends meet. They place their hopes on Tyl’s new ambitious job, which should pull them out of the debt pit.

06. Face
Declan and Rebecca are raising a terminally ill Yane. The parents vainly want to make his last days the happiest...

07. Abode of Emptiness
Panktaun has long grown into stone jungles, where even large buildings can get lost. Titus became the explorer of these jungles.

08. Victim
Magnesium Jones is one of hundreds of thousands of “grown” clones created specifically for rough work at the Factory. On Christmas he managed to escape, and now, wandering through snowy Pakston, he intends to fulfill his cherished wish...

09. A Repository of Sorrows
A story about how a policeman gets into the minds of serial killers, and the terrifying scenes don’t leave him in peace, thanks to photographic memory...

The conflict between progress and simple human calm keeps growing, and his patience thins out...