Poslednyaya koloniya

Premiya Seyun. Finalist premiy Hugo, Locus, Stalker, Nemetskoy fantasticheskoy premii. Konflikt mezhdu konklavom inoplanetnyh vidov i Soyuzom koloniy razrastaetsya. Zapret konklava na kolonizatsiyu novyh planet vynuzhdaet lyudey idti na hitrost. Osnovannuyu vtayne novuyu koloniyu Roanok vozglavlyayut Dzhon Perri i Dzheyn Sagan, kotorye pereselyayutsya syuda vmeste s priemnoy docheryu Zoi, soprovozhdaemoy predstavitelyami obinyan. Vmeste im predstoit oboronyatsya ot 412 vidov inoplanetyan konklava. Vechnye nedomolvki rukovodstva Soyuza koloniy vyzyvayut vse bolshee napryazhenie, i poselentsy, chuvstvuyuschie sebya peshkami v chuzhoy igre, nachinayut iskat alternativnye puti resheniya problem.