Zdes" pyat" istoriy, pyat" nebol"shikh povestey. Kak prinyato v fantasticheskom mire - zdes" vse vozhmozhno, i vse nelepo. Lyubaya mechta mozhet pererodit"sya v grotesk, a grotesk - v filosofskie rassuzhdeniya (o besmyslennosti zhizni, chto yavlyaetsya ee okonchatel"nym smyslom). Personazhi, chashche vsego, otpetye negodyai ili besprosvetnye tupitsy, no imenno takie oni stanovyatsya provodnikami v mire, kotoryy, chem fantastichnee i neveroyatnee, tem blizhe nashey real"nosti. V etom mire mozhno besedovat" s televizorom, a rezinoyy rukav v odno mgnovnie mozhet stat" rayskim zmeem. No chitatelyu predlagaetsya ne oplakivat" gor"kie sud"by mira sego, a prezhde vsego posmeyat"sya nad tem, chto prinyato nazyvat" Velikim Zlom. Nemnogo melankholii, kotoruyu privnosyat personazhi bolee blagorodnye, kak raz pokazyvaet smekhotvornost" tekh, u kotorykh v zhizni edistvennaya tsel" - stat" vliyatel"nymi i chereschur vazhnymi.