Molodoj kochevnik-tuareg Tiressuen polyubil prekrasnuyu Afaneor. No est' li u nih buduschee? V pustynyu vsyo chasche prihodyat evropejtsy. Tuareg nanimaetsya provodnikom k frantsuzam arheologam, a Afaneor zhelaet osuschestvit' mechtu o poseschenii sovetskoj Rossii. Frantsuzy pozvolyayut Tiressuenu otpravit'sya v SSSR, v kachestve platy za spasenie ekspeditsii. Tam kochevnik uznayot o gotovyaschemsya ispytanii yadernoj bomby v pustyne.
Ivan Antonovich (real patronymic Antipovich) Yefremov (Russian: Иван Ефремов; April 22, 1908–October 5, 1972), last sometimes spelled Efremov, was a Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker. He originated taphonomy, the study of fossilization patterns.