Fantomnyi bes - Katsura Aleksandr Vasil'evich

Global synopsis of all achievements and abominations, nobility and meanness, stupidity and wisdom, chaos and space of the bygone 20th century.

In the epiphanies of Russian poets. In the discoveries of scientists. In the predictions of science fiction. In the tragedies of wars and revolutions. In the history of the atomic bomb...

Alexander Katsura's novel is an unexpected and powerful literary phenomenon. It contains a lot of fundamental and interesting information about key figures and processes of the 20th century - nuclear physicists and scouts, politicians and writers. It is a philosophical analysis of the era in the grand web of its connections. Michael Weller

The author managed within one, albeit rather voluminous, work, clinging to the most important problem of the twentieth century - the creation of an all-striking weapon capable of destroying humanity - to tell about the fate and vectors of human development in the main areas: cultural, political, economic and, most importantly, spiritual. Valery Genkin, writer, editor-in-chief of TEXT Publishing House