The central theme of this issue is a large-scale debate surrounding the Strannik Award, featuring prominent writers and critics—including Boris Strugatsky, Igor Mozheyko, and Andrei Lazarchuk—who address a 'baker's dozen of uncomfortable questions' to the jury, arguing over subjectivity, ethics, and literary monopolies. The critique section explores the phenomenon of fan-made sequels, analyzes the novel 'Monks Under the Moon', and offers reviews of books by Sergei Kazmenko and Boris Shtern. Intellectual essays manifest a crisis in domestic science fiction and examine the evolution of interstellar communication concepts. Wrapping up the issue are an exclusive interview with Boris Strugatsky about his new novel, a humorous gallery of captions for imaginary paintings, and an amusing anecdote about Soviet sci-fi authors meeting Stanisław Lem.
Issue contents:
- Editor's column - Sergey Berezhnoy, Andrey Nikolaev.
- Letters - A. Bachilo, A. Kubatieva, V. Zvyagintsev, A. Oleksenko, N. Romanetsky, E. Filenko, N. Rezanova, L. Vershinin, A. Nikolaev, B. Zavgorodniy.
- Gallery of the Duke of Beaufort - The idea about the gallery of the Duke of Beaufort is very fruitful, but it should not contain drawings at all, but only captions for the paintings, as it should be with Dumas.
- A damn dozen awkward questions for the jury members - Andrey Chertkov.
- A damn dozen awkward questions for the jury members - Andrey Stolyarov.
- A damn dozen awkward questions for the jury members - Andrey Lazarchuk.
- A damn dozen awkward questions for the jury members - Vyacheslav Rybakov.
- A damn dozen awkward questions for the jury members - Evgeniy Lukin.
- A damn dozen awkward questions for the jury members - Eduard Govorkyan.
- A damn dozen awkward questions for the jury members - Igor Mozheiko.
- A damn dozen awkward questions for the jury members - Boris Strugatsky.
- Literary pages - Flight over a frog's nest.
- Barometer - Reviews by S. Berezhny.
- There is such an opinion! - Monks under the moon.
- There is such an opinion! - Make the book yourself or the disease of the sequel.
- The Eternal Thinker - Science fiction is not ballet, you have to think!
- The Eternal Thinker - The idea of interstellar communications in modern science fiction.
- Argument with Arbitman - Thank you for the magazine "Two Hundred". I hope that over time it will transform into the “One Hundred Thousand” magazine and come to every home.
- Candlelight Conversations - Interview taken with Boris Natanovich Strugatsky.
- Pinsters of all countries, join us! - True stories from Zmey Gorynych.
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