The Healer

It is 1989. The USSR has changed significantly by the end of the XIII Five-Year Plan, and its growth has not been cut short in the turbulent times of the treacherous “perestroika.” The Soviet Union is still great, powerful—and unbreakable. The 1980s are not marred by the “era of lavish funerals”—the old guard is alive and well, thanks to Misha Garin.

Soon he will be almost thirty, but Misha still isn’t sure that the USSR is saved—that the native superpower won’t be knocked off course. A global crisis is looming…

And what is happening beyond the worlds, in the neighboring beta-space where the exact replica of humankind lives on permanent residence? There, too, there is a Soviet Union—only the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has chosen Shelepin.

Is “beta-USSR” better or worse? Does it threaten “our” USSR, or in the Beta they found the secret of salvation for the state of workers and peasants? Whom will Garin meet on the other side of the local barrier? What awaits him in another world?

It’s scary to become a double “reincarnated” person… But it has to be done, Misha, it has to be done!