Who knows what lengths the desire to break out of the monotony of everyday life can take! For Boris Enikeev, this longing turned into an even more terrible penal sentence.
Ice expanses of a foreign planet, and then the monstrous swamps of Vodavia—and there is war, fire, blood, and a daily mortal risk. And as a reward, the just Cosmic Civilization, of which Boris became a soldier, generously gave him—and each of its other charges—a bowl of gruel and a dream of a bright future. But an ingenious earthly mind will always find a way…