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Ivan Korsak's novel A Furrow in a Foreign Field is about a truly legendary family, the Tymoshenko brothers. The elder brother Stepan is called the father of American applied mechanics, Volodymyr was a member of the Roosevelt government, Serhiy was the Minister of Railways of the Ukrainian People's Republic government, in exile, living in Lutsk, he was elected ambassador and senator of the Polish Sejm, and he also initiated the modern Ukrainian style in architecture - buildings were erected in Georgia and Russia, Ukraine and Poland, the Czech Republic and Canada, Paraguay and Argentina based on his designs; the share of churches among those buildings is significant. Serhiy's son Oleksandr was also the chief architect of the Washington metro, built skyscrapers in New York, and laid the foundations for the Society of Ukrainian Engineers of America. It is a pity, of course, that these famous scientists, engineers, and architects had so little time to develop their own land, but rather Poland or the Czech Republic, Washington or New York... But it happened as it happened, each of them ploughed his own furrow, even if it was not on his own field. But it, furrow by furrow, will eventually yield a universal, eternal field."

The novel Desert Explosion is dedicated to the iconic Ukrainian family of the Kistiakivskys, who left behind glorious deeds on several continents. At the same time, the book covers events and phenomena much more broadly, and tells the story of the significant contribution of Ukrainians to the scientific achievements of mankind, to the high technologies of our time, the authorship of which is sometimes appropriated by a stranger: Heorhii Kistiakivskyi, the protagonist of the novel, participates in the development of the atomic bomb to counter German and Russian fascism, and as a scientific adviser to the President of the United States, he is involved in the training of the first astronauts for flights to the moon, the development of ballistics, and also has the courage to say "no" to what is against his conscience or the cynical progress of humanity. The book may also be of interest to readers because it is based largely on English-language sources that are still unavailable in Ukraine.