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[Alexandr Korol]

Introduction

The seventh volume of “Alternative History” is another opportunity to show the reader, from a different angle, what happened to the book’s hero, what the Matrix is, what the Philosopher’s Stone is, how he searched for it, what it gave him when he found it, and whether he found it at all. Throughout this novel, the main character answers readers’ questions about the first and second volumes, since he believes that the first and second volumes tell the entire story of his adventure from beginning to end — but in a condensed form. All the other volumes of “Alternative History” — the third, fourth, fifth, and so on — are the same adventure, only expanded and voluminous, not even in 3D, but in 4D. The seventh volume is an inevitable attempt to remind people, the readers, what was in the first and second volumes, in order to prepare them for the conclusion of the entire adventure novel, which the author plans to complete in the eighth volume of “Alternative History.” So the seventh volume is the readers’ preparation for the conclusion of this whole adventure, this entire science fiction novel.