Forgive me, dear readers who have read “The Faith of Outcasts,” but this book describes not Erik’s path, but a completely different Executioner—one who at first didn’t even realize he was one. And the Earth depicted here is by no means the same Earth as in “The Faith of Outcasts.” Why is that? I have no answer; it turned out this way.
I’d like to apologize right away, but the book is absolutely not “tolerant.” I understand the term “tolerance” only in a medical sense—as the inability of the body to fight infection. In a social organism, in society, it’s also the same.
The history of the world described here is also somewhat different from the history of the planet you and I live on. Very little, but still. Things that happened there didn’t happen with us. And vice versa.
This text was seriously rewritten and changed. Since I began writing this book, several years have passed—I myself changed, the situation in the world changed—so I rewrote “The March.”
Any coincidences with real people or events are accidental. From beginning to end, the book is the product of the author’s fiction.
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