Aleksandr Gusev

Karen Marshall’s body, mind, and heart do not belong to her alone. She shares them with Rosalee, a smart and perky teenager; Timee, a flamboyant, puerile youth, who wears women’s clothing; an old lady, a habitué of museums; and a dozen of others. Karen’s official diagnosis is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Through personal stories, “Busy Inside” delves deeply into DID — a condition that fascinates and puzzles modern psychiatry.

オレンジの木箱に閉じ込められて、遠い南の国からやってきた、大きな耳の小さないきもの。起こしてもすぐに倒れてしまうので「チェブラーシカ（ばったりたおれ屋さん）」と名づけられたこの正体不明のいきものは、動物園にも受け入れを拒否され、都会の片隅の電話ボックスで暮らしていた。そんな彼が出会ったのは、動物園で働く、一人暮らしの孤独なワニ・ゲーナだった。 　「この街には一体どれくらいいるんだろう。ひとりぼっちの人が」 　ふたりの優しさが今、この街に、ささやかな幸せを生み出してゆく——。

Alisa Seleznyova and her father professor Seleznyov are traveling in space. They meet their old friend archaeologist Gromozeka, who's just discovered a planet all inhabitants of which died. It became known that they discovered a virus of hostility, got infected and killed each other. Gromozeka also discovered that they had left the virus on Earth 26000 years ago, and the virus is about to become loose. The only chance to save the Earth is to travel 26000 years back in time - to the epoch when witches, dragons and magicians lived along with usual people.