Sergey returns from an interstellar expedition that discovered intelligent life on two distant planets—Peryun and Lucky. The crew suffered heavy gamma radiation exposure, and Sergey remained the only survivor.
By the time this happened on Earth, they had created a Cybernetically Super-Complex System (SS), to which Sergey was connected while his new body was being grown from cloned cells.
Not knowing what was happening in the real world, and treating the virtual world of the SS as the only and absolute reality—an island in the Pacific Ocean—Sergey lives a full life with his wife Olga, conducts research, and they have children.
As a result of a reality breach, he suddenly finds himself on another planet—Elya—where he is among Elyans, biologically almost identical to humans, who help him deal with the invasion of an alien race of monkey-like whistle-people that adhere to fascist ideology. Having received telepathic abilities from the Elyans, experiencing countless adventures, living on Elya for several decades, and dying there of old age, Sergey again ends up on the island with Olga and the children.
Soon, people arrive on the island trying to gain Sergey’s trust, but many of them are criminals from a prohibited organization—neo-humanists. Using violence and the establishment of a fascist dictatorship, the neo-humanists try to solve the main problem on Earth: the appearance of a significant number of people with mutations and genotype deviations that can lead the human race to biological degeneration. After dealing with the criminals, Sergey suddenly finds himself back in the real world—his clone had been grown, and Sergey’s mind was transferred into it.
At first, shaken by the realization that his wife, his adventures on Elya and on the island were nothing more than a virtual reality, Sergey quickly notices that much of his electronic dream has clear parallels in reality. For example, in reality, the criminals who attacked Sergey in the virtual reality, the neo-humanist movement, and the girl Elga—whom Sergey fell in love with—exist. He also learns that his adventures were not reflected at all in the scenario laid down in the SS, and that they had actually happened.
It turned out that the SS, having absorbed Sergey’s mind and his high moral-ethical standards, became more humanized, spontaneously formed itself as an artificial intelligence, identified itself with Olga, and closed off electronic and physical access for everyone except Sergey, whom it considered its own. It also duplicated Sergey’s mind. One of the Seregyeys remained in the SS, while the second stayed in the clone body. The second Sergey was called to fight the neo-humanists in the real world.
Trilogy "Tree of Life":
1. Tree of Life. Book One
2. Tree of Life. Book Two
3. Tree of Life. Book Three