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Osnovnoy zhanr knigi "Chetvertyy reaktor" - nauchnaya fantastika, khotya prisutstvuyut i drugie zhanry, naprimer, filosofskiy, istoricheskiy, zhanr politicheskogo detektiva. Kniga sostoit iz trekh chastey. Parallel'no drug drugu proslezhivayutsya neskol'ko syuzhetnykh liniy, na pervyy vzglyad ne svyazannykh mezhdu soboy: sovetskie voys'ka v Afganistane, mezhdunarodnyy narkobiznes, istoriya gibeli dalekoy tsivilizatsii v sozvezdii Bekaza i dr. Eti syuzhety razdelyayut ne tol'ko ogromnye rasstoyaniya, soizmerimye s razmerami Nashey galaktiki, vremya (milliardy let), no i drugie prostranstvennye izmereniya (parallel'nye miry). V knige perepleteny mnogie nasushchnye voprosy, k kotorym chelovechestvo vsegda proyavlyalo interes: proiskhozhdenie zhizni na zemle, kontakt s inoplanetnymi tsivilizatsiyami, informatsionaya sistema kosmosa, vospriyatie mira posle smerti, vzaimodeystvie parallel'nykh mirov i, konechno - moral'nye aspekty obshchestva. Postepenno s razvitiem syuzheta stanovitsya yasno, chto sobytiya, proiskhodyashchie v kazhdoy syuzhetnoy linii, vzaimoobuslovleny. Poslednyaya glava knigi "Glava zavershayushchaya i obobshchayushchaya" ob"edinyaet vsekh geroev sobytiy v edinoe tseloe. Prednaznachena dlya shirokogo kruga chitateley.
