Parallel World (Collection)

You walk along the road and don’t even suspect that right next to you—just a few steps away—another unseen life is thriving. No instruments, however precise, can detect it. It exists in another dimension, on a different time scale. This is the mysterious parallel world that perhaps each of us moves into after death.

Here, by the roadside, lies a stone. It is millions of years old. The hooves of a two-horned woolly rhinoceros and the broad palm of an archaeanthropus—our distant ancestor—stepped on it. The surface of the stone is dotted with some mysterious signs. Is it not an imprint of an alien’s footprint from outer space?

And over there is another stone—also not just a pebble. Maybe it’s a fragment of a meteorite—a cosmic beacon that pointed the way to starships of other planets.

All of this is told in this book. Read it, and you’ll see that the most amazing thing isn’t somewhere out there in the lofty heights, in the boundless distance—but here, in your home, on your street. The author is trying to show you that fiction and truth, fantasy and reality are not opposites. And that often reality turns out to be more fantastic than a tale, and fantasy—more truthful than reality.