phenomen a book

In a distant future, Purgatory is the 1,986th planet to be colonized by humanity. Located far outside the center of the known galaxy, however, the thousands and thousands of American, Russian and Japanese pioneers have long been forgotten. After colonization, the level of technical development in the cities they founded quickly fell back to the level of the 1980s, while the remains of the former colonist spaceships became almost priceless artifacts.