Overburdened with Evil by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Short summary

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A creature named Demiurge appears in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. He appears in the human world under the guise of an agent of Gosstrakh. And he encounters the astronomer Sergei Manokhin.

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USSR. 1980s. Summer is in full swing in the city of Tashlinsk, despite the fact that the locals call the weather «eternal November.» Sergey Makhonin lives there. Sergey is a doctor of physics and mathematics and an astronomer. He also deals with the theory of the so-called «stellar graveyards».

A strange creature calling himself Demiurg appears near house number 527. Helping him is Agasfer Lukich, who also inwardly faintly resembles a man. The former acts as an agent of the Gosstarakh, which adds a lot of popularity points for him. Even though the KGB has been watching them for a long time, the secret service officers cannot take them in hand. The reason for all this is their existence outside of time and space, which allows them to adjust reality to their own needs.

The Demiurge arrived on Earth with the goal of gaining power over humans. Everyone has dreams, and the Visitor takes advantage of this. And despite his immense power in this regard, the creature wants even more power and even more power over the minds of men.