In this issue: Vladimir Makanin ‘The Captive of the Caucasus’, Victor Pelevin ‘The Tambourine for the Upper World’, Vassily Aksyonov ‘Palmer's First Flight’, ‘Palmer's Second Flight’, Zinovy Zinik ‘The Moth’, Alexander Terekhov ‘The Rat Killer’, ‘Happiness’, Mark Shatunovsky ‘The Discrete Continuity of Love’. 1995 Booker winners: Georgy Vladimov ‘A General and His Army’, Oleg Pavlov ‘An Official tale’, Evgheny Fyodorov ‘The Odyssey’, Stanislav Rassadin ‘A Subjective Substantiation of a Subjective Choice’, Sergei Potapov ‘A Painter with a Cosmic Consciousness’. The issue is concluded with autobiographical information about the authors.