War with the Djinn

Once, mankind already faced a “genie”—a battle robot of the hyperpterids—and barely survived. Now, however, it’s a real war. The Demons, who suddenly appear and are clearly directed by some evil will, begin systematically destroying human space settlements and research stations throughout the Solar System. Until now, there is nothing they can be opposed with—except a fragile hope that a new expedition to the Pole of Inaccessibility, a planet nicknamed “the Cemetery of the Genies,” will produce results. But the colonel sent there, Selim von Horst, and the security officer, Artem Romashin, disappear in the most mysterious way…