1. Last year, Elon Musk's company implanted a neural network into a pig's skull. What will happen when we are all forced to have such implants—for our own good, of course?
2. Who is happier—a human or a cat? What is a human—the body, the brain, or something else? Can electrical brain stimulation make us happy? You will find answers to these and many other questions.
3. Each novel by Victor Pelevin is a quest in which there are no winners or losers. It is intellectual joy of the highest order.
4. Victor Pelevin is a brilliant Russian prose writer, whose name has become synonymous with subtle humor and irony, taste, the ability to set new trends and delight a huge army of readers year after year.
5. Reading Pelevin means being aware of the latest trends of the era.