The story "Reserve of Death," which gave the name to the collection, attracts with the sharpness of the plot. In a mountain valley cut off from the world, a detachment of climbing climbers accidentally comes across a secret laboratory of the international drug mafia, where they try to zombify people who are forcibly held, to endow them with superhuman abilities. A fierce confrontation unfolds. The heroes of the other two works are astronauts going on full unexplored expeditions to distant starworlds.