Secrets of the Void

If the First Strategist of the League of Galaxies—a scientist, a zero-physicist—is sent into a closed world to hunt down an uneducated savage, trouble is guaranteed. Not only does he find a girl instead of a boy in the designated location, she doesn’t even fit the role of a savage. Tasha is an experienced ecologist: she can save not only the flora and fauna of Taimyr, but also press a pistol to the stranger’s forehead, and help her colleagues from other galaxies. Steize’s confusion grows, and as he gets to know Tasha, he increasingly feels that personally she is needed far more by him than by all the cosmo-ecologists of the Alliance! And not at all because of her phenomenal gift.

Paths to the stars created by zero-physicists were, for many centuries, the most reliable roads, but recently catastrophes began happening on them—very similar to sabotage. Science proves that there can be no external influence on the subspace, yet the facts say that a wicked genius has appeared in the Alliance, someone capable of destroying all the worlds of thousands of galaxies. Strange circumstances draw Steize and the brave ecologist Tasha ever closer. What keeps pulling them together—Tasha’s unusual gift or a hostile will? And why was the girl pulled from Earth: to help the galaxies solve their accumulating environmental problems, or exactly the opposite? Could it be that every step she takes has been predicted by someone in advance? As the mysterious enemy says: "Freedom of choice is a fiction, a beautiful fairy tale for naive people. In truth, all your actions serve the goals of those who managed to calculate you in advance."

Attention! Contains scenes of drinking alcoholic beverages. Excessive alcohol consumption harms your health.