Light in the window. Earth ways. Well. Loginov S.

Writer Svyatoslav Loginov is a well -deserved laureate of many fantastic awards (Wanderer, Interpreshkon, Raskon, Aelita Awards, Belyaevsky Prize, Kira Bulychev, Ivan Efremov, etc.), short form master, master of short form. The author of the novel “The Many -armed god of the Daline”, one of the most unusual phenomena in Russian science fiction, turned the idea of ​​what it should be, and other bright works recognized and demanded by readers. Three novels included in this book are three worlds, three sides of life.

In the novel “Light in the Window”, the action takes place on the other side of being, in the afterlife, where the main character falls after death. But this afterlife is not a snack and ephemeral, as in the view of most mystics. It has strict economic laws: here you can get everything you need in life - from the simplest things, clothes, services, food to the luxury of rich mansions surrounded by impregnable walls - but you need to pay for your needs, which you left according to for yourself in the world of the living. While they remember you there, here you are also alive. If the memory of you is erased, you turn into a void.

The novel “Earth ways” is a multilayer story about how magic leaves the world. Progress, the Little God, the patron saint of artisans and scientists, replaced the usual gods in whom people believed, and with them magic on the deaf backyards of civilization. In a world that does not believe in magic, magic loses strength. In a world that does not believe in the gods, the gods cease to be gods.

"Polode". The time of action of the XVII century. The scene is half the world. No matter where the evil fate of Semyon, a simple peasant from under Tula, went to torture happiness on the Volga and captivated by the steppes-nomads. Sands of Arabia, Persia, Mecca, Istanbul, Jerusalem, China, India... In his life he went through everything, took on all sins, changed the banner, clothes, faith and returned to his homeland with a soul burned by hatred for his offenders.

But in nature there is a magical well, giving a person something that you can’t buy for any treasures. This is a gift of mercy. And the receiving this gift takes on the heart in his heart...