Star Corsair (also known as the Snake Ring) is a science fiction and philosophical novel by Ukrainian Soviet writer Oles Berdnyk. According to many literary critics, this novel is considered the pinnacle of the writer's work.
The main idea of the novel is the problems of human spirituality, further development of human society, spiritual and physical improvement of man, which is associated not only with man's entry into interplanetary and intergalactic space, but also man's exit from the limits of its space of existence, beyond the three-dimensional space, into multidimensionality.
The novel begins with a description of the life of a young Ukrainian scientist Serhiy Horenytsia, who is working on the problem of time, namely the study of its flow, as well as the ability to change the usual course of time in one direction