Tower made of mud and branches

Social science fiction nominated at the prestigious “Nebulus” award. The minister sparing innocent citizens goes into exile. The queen is building a giant defensive tower using devices brought by refugees from another reality. But even when the future calls and the fate of a person becomes indistinguishable from the fate of the world, the past pulls us back, to happy times and unfulfilled hopes. The collection is supplemented by magical stories about the nature of reality, personality and ancient fantastic technologies. “Somewhere in the borderline between science fiction and fantasy-a little to the left of the early Ted Chan, a few degrees south of Mieville-Yaroslav Barsukov in the word, like a brush, brought the world that I see, closing my eyes.” -Peter Watts This amazing scientific and fantastic story about dangerous technologies is fraught with amazing beauty passages, which should be returned again and again. - Kirkus Reviews