Cyberpunk, according to E. Lukin? Not quite. An intellectual, talented, and downright merciless “slap in the face of public taste”? True, but that isn’t all.
At first glance, it looks like a simple story about a middle-class intellectual who becomes the owner of an IT device that lets him distance himself from the outside world while still communicating with it successfully. But under the pen of one of the best science-fiction writers among our countrymen, this story transforms into a multidimensional social-philosophical saga about the impossibility of mutual understanding between citizens and the price we must pay for success and prosperity.