Icarus Iron

Anna Starobinets was called the "Russian Stephen King," "Russian Neil Gaiman," and "Russian Orwell." But this writer is simply special. With possibly the best imagination in all of contemporary Russian fiction. With a unique instinct for phobias, obsessions, and pain points. And with an almost extrasensory ability to find gaps in the mundane world, from which a draft of eerie wonder blows. "Icarus Iron" is seven gripping stories about a changing reality. In this reality, one can become a model family man by undergoing a simple operation, but inadvertently lose their soul. A longed-for trip to the capital of the world turns into a road to hell, a failed screenwriter finds himself at the epicenter of an alien invasion instead of meeting with producers, a reawakened gene threatens to shape the human cocoon into either an angel or a demon, and it is still unknown what goals the authors of a children's computer game are pursuing. A lot can happen in the familiar world seen through the special vision of Anna Starobinets!