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Dear reader, you are holding an amazing collection in your hands, where poetry is intertwined with music. The book is an oratorio in praise of the great and arrogant, strange and magical city - St. Petersburg.
The word "music" in general seems to be the key one, if we talk about "Thirteen and a Half". And not because there are famous musicians among the participants. No, literally everything in this collection is impregnated with music.
Special mention should be made of the composition of the participants. It can be called "star" without exaggeration. Musicians, writers, scientists, “cartographers of the future” are science fiction writers. Here we must pay tribute to the poet and publisher Alexander Smir, who literally put his soul into this project: Yulia Andreeva, Andrey Balabukha, Dmitry Veresov, Igor Geko, Andrey Golovin, Dmitry Grigoriev, Tatiana Gromova, Valery Zemskikh, Andrey Korovin, Vladislav Rusanov, Alexei Rybin , Alexander Maslennikov, Arsen Mirzaev, Alexander Smir.
He draws on an illustrative series prepared by Anatoly Kudryavtsev. His unusual surrealistic compositions very well complement the texts included in the collection.