Unity of reason. Heavenly spheres: Charles Sheffield

… a distant future. Here, dozens of reasonable races coexist peacefully and amicably.
Here, humanity, which has settled throughout the solar system, turned the Earth into a “ghetto for the discharge of society.”
Almost nothing happened here for a long time.
And now … Now something is very strange. Either a series of accidents, or a series of absolutely incredible crimes, or simply the consequences of the intervention of a new, completely “alien” mind. But then – what reason?

Author
Sheffield Charles
Translator
Kolesnikov O.
Publisher
AST, 2004
Series
Golden Library of Fantasy
Genre
Classical foreign prose