Evgeny Dudnikov

After an accident, memories of his service on the Ninth Planet flash in the mind of auto mechanic Dima Khrust: amazing landscapes, the base of earthlings, battles with monsters, friends and his beloved girl Polina, whom he once saved... Khrust's colleagues twist their fingers at their temples, because theirs is completely different - ordinary army memories. But when Dima meets Polina in real life, he no longer doubts: someone corrected their memories. Who and why? The truth can only be found out by returning to the dangerous planet.

In the not-so-distant future the computer game industry reaches its fullest flower. Virtual reality is indistinguishable from real life. The government launches Department C to control the game space. Censors secretly delve into games. Their mission is to take sex and violence beyond the forbidden level. A game that would let them do that must be banned. One of the Censors is a good guy who hates his bloody job. The other one is a creep. But even the Censors lose their ability to tell the game from the real world.

The beginning of the 1960s, a period of aggravation of the confrontation between the USSR and the USA. In the most difficult weather conditions and with malfunctions on board, the first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 sets off for a hike under the ice of the Arctic Ocean in order to surface exactly at the North Pole.