Icarus' Iron

Anna Starobinets has been called the "Russian Stephen King," the "Russian Neil Gaiman," and the "Russian Orwell." But this writer is simply special. With perhaps the best imagination in contemporary Russian fiction. With a unique intuition for phobias, obsessions, pain... points. And with an almost extrasensory ability to find gaps in the ordinary world, from which a chilling wonder seeps through. "Icarus' Iron" - is seven gripping stories about a changing reality. In this reality, one can become an exemplary family man with 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 instead of meeting with producers finds himself at the epicenter of an alien invasion, a awakened gene threatens to shape from a human cocoon either an angel or a demon, and it is still unknown what goals the authors of a children's computer game pursue. Many things can happen in the familiar world seen through the unique vision of Anna Starobinets!