Fifteen volumes of the Anthology of World Science Fiction contain works by the best foreign and Russian masters of this kind of literature, in total more than a hundred brilliant names. Each volume of the series is devoted to some favorite topic of science fiction writers: contact with an alien mind, time travel, space exploration, etc. The most famous domestic critics and literary scholars who are professionally engaged in the study of fantasy took part in the compilation of the volumes. Each book in the series includes reference materials, as well as a review of science fiction literature on the topic, which is devoted to this volume "Anthology of World Science Fiction" is designed for everyone interested in this kind of literature, but it will be especially useful for schoolchildren. The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters. Fiction wakes the mind. Time. Something, it would seem, the simplest - known to everyone, easily measurable - is what we live in, which, in fact, determines life. Time is incomprehensible. We don't know what it is. Constant - and irrepressibly elusive. Began to exist simultaneously with space - or was it somehow different? Is the end of time possible? And finally: is it possible to master them, time?