CONTENTS Editor’s Preface Introduction: At the Frontier of the Present Age: Ariadne Gromova The Time Scale: Aleksandr and Sergei Abramov Futility: Andrei Gorbovskii The Test: Artur Mirer The Old Road: Artur Mirer The Silent Procession: Boris Smagin He Will Wake in Two Hundred Years: Andrei Gorbovskii The Second Martian Invasion: Arkadii and Boris, Strugatskii