Acknowledgements  
Origins: Foreword by John Payne 
Connections: Foreword by A. Charles Catania

Chapter 1. Prehistoric Times  
   Evacuation from Odessa  
   Childhood, Adolescence and Youth  
   First Love  

Chapter 2. Rostov University and After  
   Town of Kulyab  
   City of Dushanbe  
      Artistic Interlude: Vladimir Serebrovsky  
      Scientific Interlude: Stellar dynamics and plasma physics  
      Scientific Interlude: The comet head problem  
   Personal and Astrophysical Interlude: Solomon Borisovich Pikelner  
   My debut in astrophysics  
   A little about my personal life  
      Poetic Interlude: Alexander Timofeevsky  

Chapter 3. Institute for Astrophysics, Tadjik Academy of Sciences  
      Interlude on an Outstanding Student: Muzafar Maksumov  
   My Intellectual, political and personal life  
   The essence does not play a role  
   Hemingway and the birth of a son  
      Scientific Interlude: The spiral structure of galaxies  

Chapter 4.  Back to Rostov University  
      Another Interlude on my Outstanding Students  
         Yuri Shchekinov: Teacher  
         Yuri Mishurov: Picnic at the Edge of our Galaxy  
         Vladimir Korchagin: Rendezvous with a Comet  
         Grigory Moiseevich Vereshkov: What Role Does the Graviton Play?  
            Obituary of Grigory Moiseevich Vereshkov  
   All-Russian Conferences: Unsolved Problems of Astrophysics  
      Personal and Astrophysical Interlude: Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich  
      Personal and Astrophysical Interlude: Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev  

Chapter 5. Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (IKI)  
      Scientific Interlude: The Belt of Life in our Galaxy and the Doomsday Argument  
      Personal and Astrophysical Interlude: Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky  
   The Shklovskii Phenomenon  
   The Hamburg Account  
   The Sum of Exclusions  
   Goodness Must Be Concrete  
   The Mechanics of Aristotle  
   Hello, Is Anybody Out There?  
   Is God on the Side of Large Battalions?  
   The Pauli Principle  
      Personal and Astrophysical Interlude: Vitalii Lazarevich Ginzburg  
        Letter to L.S. Marochnik  
   Back to my Personal and Intellectual Life  
      Artistic Interlude: Boris Zhutovsky  
      Artistic Interlude:Vadim Sidur  
      Artistic Interlude: Dmitree Plavinsky  
   The Late 1980s  

Chapter 6.  The United States

Chapter 7. The Dark Energy Problem of Modern Cosmology  
      Scientific Interlude: About Dark Energy  

Chapter 8. “Materialization” of Ghosts  

Chapter 9. Birth and Death of the Universe: From Nothing to Something and Back Again  
   Afterword to Chapter IX  

Chapter 10. Trapped in Doubting Castle  

Chapter  11. Time is Out of Joint  

References  
Marochnik (1960 through 2022)