Пересадочная станция. Цивилизация статуса

"Transfer Station" is one of the best, iconic novels of the great Master.

In a remote corner of Wisconsin, on a neglected farm, Inoch Wallis leads the life of a hermit. The neighbors know that he settled here a long time ago, and every day he goes for a walk, taking a gun from the Civil War era, and does not seem to age at all. But what the neighbors don’t know and should never know is that within the walls of his house he receives the most incredible guests from distant star systems. Because more than a century ago, an alien named Ulysses recruited Enoch and appointed him as the caretaker of the only station in our Galaxy, standing at the crossroads of highly developed space civilizations...

The novel "Civilization of Status" is a fantastic action movie with a dynamic plot, chases and shootouts and at the same time a philosophical parable.

For the crime he committed, Will Barrent is sent to the Omega prison planet. Here, criminals have created a world in which violence and cruelty rule, and the law dictates taking drugs and killing people. There is another civilization - planet Earth - a kingdom of order, calm and stability. But is a world so good where everything is decided for you and there is nothing to strive for? Where is total control established over the mind and behavior of everyone? Where is the program of self-denunciation built into the brain?

Two probable paths for the development of society... Earth and Omega, the planet of Good and the planet of Evil... Civilizations so different and so similar to each other. Civilizations of status...

Contents:

Vladimir Gopman. The World Needs Kindness (Foreword)

Clifford Simak.

Interchange station. Novel

Stories:

A generation that has achieved its goal. When the house is lonely. Money Tree. House of the Renewed

Robert Sheckley.

Civilization of status. Novel

Stories:

The Tsar’s Will. Scavenger on Lorey. Battle. Endless Western. Mnemon. A duel of minds. Three deaths of Ben Baxter. The seventh victim. Guardian bird. Hare