where robots challenge their creators for domination of the Earth,..

where a strange form of mutation threatens to change men into beasts...

where human needs and values are locked in fateful battle with the totalitarian ethos of the machine...

These are but a few of the themes reflected in this gathering of glittering gems of Soviet Science Fiction. Like all great SF, these dazzling flights of the imagination will shake up your previous ideas of the possible and the probable. And they may also drastically alter your conception of just what is happening in Russia today.