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This volume includes eight short stories and a novella by Jacek Dukaj in the genre of science fiction and alternative history from collections published in 2000 and 2017. The works from his earlier collection In the Land of Infidels belong to metaphysical and theological fiction. The stories from the collection Xavras Vyzhryn and Other National Works take the reader, in particular, to the horizons of alternative history and even political philosophy familiar from Kryha. The newest stories - "Vtrko" and "Portrait of a Netota" - although completely different in terms of plots and ideas, are united by the mood and spirit of the present life of an Eastern European person. Against the backdrop of the dynamic, inventive and unique plots, the reader learns how the boundaries between war and terrorism, reason and faith, hero and villain, artist and murderer are disappearing. Philosophical comprehension of the moral dilemmas of our life is one of the most interesting features of the writer and an important element of his works.