This issue of the magazine focuses on science fiction literature and culture, including reflections on the genre's development and its state in the domestic market. The publication features historical overviews, reviews of notable works, and analytical materials on Vladislav Krapivin's writing. Readers will find detailed breakdowns of literary awards, festival reports, and publishing news updates. Furthermore, the issue includes an interview with writer Vyacheslav Rybakov, satirical caricatures, open letters from critics, and a selection of correspondence from the mailbag.
Issue contents:
- Editor's column - S. Berezhnoy, A. Nikolaev.
- Analogies - A brief history of science fiction.
- Toast - Ode to the bibliography of science fiction.
- New lines of the chronicle - Nomination lists of the "Bronze Snail" and "Interpresscon" awards in 1995. Hugo Award winners.
- The Eternal Thinker - An open letter to publishers.
- Gallery of the Duke of Beaufort - New additions to the exhibition.
- Multiplication of entities - How hedgehogs die or Death as a life-giving principle in the ideology of necroromanticism.
- There is such an opinion - The diagnosis is forever.
- Barometer - Standing on the walls of Babylon.
- New lines of the chronicle - A white spot in the center of Eurasia.
- Courier SF - News from publishers.
- Dedication to the album - We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers; He who does not love his brother remains in death.
- Candlelight Conversations - Andrey Chertkov - Vyacheslav Rybakov.
- Argument with Arbitman - An open letter to Roman Arbitman.
- PO Box 153 - Lines from letters.
- Trail - Yuri Gershovich Fleishman.
- Mimoid - The professor is covered. Exposed. Interview with a loop on a chandelier. Judge.
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