This issue focuses on the challenges, trends, and backstage developments of Russian science fiction in the early nineties. It features memoirs commemorating Vitaly Bugrov and reports from literary festivals and seminars, including Aelita-94. The collection includes detailed reviews of Nick Perumov's novels and critical analyses of the Nebula and Interpresscon awards. The issue concludes with open letters from authors and an interview with Boris Strugatsky discussing the crisis within the genre.
Issue contents:
- Editors' column - Sergey Berezhnoy, Andrey Nikolaev.
- In memory of the editor - Vitaly Ivanovich Bugrov...
- New lines of the chronicle - Aelita-94.
- Dedication to the album - Worlds of great melancholy.
- New factor - Who is hiding under the pseudonym "Nick Perumov"?
- New factor - “Lethiathan”, former “Fatherland”, or a repetition of the past.
- New factor - Myths of the fourth era.
- New factor - The author through the mouth of the hero...
- There is such an opinion! - Who needs it, this Nebula?
- Letters - R. Arbitman, V. Okulov, N. Gornov, P. Vyaznikov, A. Lazarchuk, M. Uspensky, E. Gevorkyan, A. Bolnykh.
- Articles - Dirty laundry, or the history of the bronze bubble.
- Articles - Is the beast awakening? Is the beast dying?
- Articles - Confession of an outsider.
- Articles - One, two, three - is the sun shining?
- Articles - Open letter.
- Candlelight Conversations - Landscape after the battle.
- Announcement - A damn dozen awkward questions.
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