The events of the novel “Adjacent Zone” (2016) take place in the future. Having successfully solved all interethnic and economic problems, humankind entered an era of prosperity. But it turned out that in the absence of an external threat, the main enemy of a person revealed itself from within. A mysterious and strange disease, named by scientists “the World of Internal Coma,” spreads across the world like an epidemic and threatens catastrophic consequences. The two main characters of the novel are trying to save their love and, at the same time, to save the world.