A collection of stories by Mike Gelprin will let the reader look into the future. What will it become for us—hopeless or bright? This book does not offer a definite answer, but it presents many different versions of what awaits us. We will learn how much a handful of earth can cost, how cloned soldiers fight in someone else’s war, and why nuclear physicists need to format memory. We’ll see how future TV series are made and what the game “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” turned into. We’ll learn how people are sent to another planet with tiny chances of survival, how the minds of different people unite into a single whole, and how they are forcibly separated. Cataclysms and disasters, trials and feats, betrayal and rescue— in this collection you will find everything.