The protagonist of the series "From the Memoirs of Ion Tychy" by the Polish science fiction writer S. Lem is the captain of an interstellar spacecraft, a space wolf, and at the same time a well-known scientist and famous researcher. . He is well acquainted with a number of ingenious inventors, including Corcoran, who modeled the whole world on a computer, Decantor, who succeeded in liberating human consciousness by condemning it to painful immortality, and Zazul, the first inventor of the time machine. Ion Tychy is visiting a psychiatric psychiatric clinic. He witnesses a rebellion of the artificial mind, which tries to free itself from human influence.
In the end, there are enough adventures on space, and the hero of this cycle seems to be attracted to them like a magnet.