Accessories and artifacts. Anthology

What accompanies the mind in space and on planets? Each civilization has its own accessories, which through centuries become artifacts. Someone considers them just trinkets, at best souvenirs. And others turn to them in search of an answer to the most acute questions of modern science. This anthology combines works in which people and objects act on equal terms, living their own destinies. A piece of ancient silk is able to store maps of many spaces, and a fragment of a "heavenly stone" turns the chronicle into a report on the experiment. But can an understanding of such an object cancel all experience accumulated by mankind? And what will happen when two will meet in the middle of the galaxy - with their unique accessories, a unique past and future?