Includes Ilya Varshavsky: The violet -- The duel -- Plot for a novel -- Escape -- Kirill Bulychev: Share it with me -- Dmitri Bilenkin: Personality probe -- Gennady Gor: Theocrates' blue window -- Vladen Bakhnov: Cheap sale -- Beware of the Ahs! -- Anatoly Dneprov: Formula for immortality -- Vladimir Savchenko: Success algorithm -- Mikhail Emtsev and Eremei Parnov: The pale Neptune equation -- Vadim Shefner: The friar of Chikola -- A provincial's wings.