Cobb Anderson, a legendary scientist who was cursed on Earth for his scientific work, but became a real legend among boppers (robots that have the ability to evolve), lives in Florida, in one of the reservations for old people. He drinks chronically, his heart is no longer real, replaced, and not of the highest quality. It would seem that there is nothing to expect from life. But then a robot appears, in his own guise, who declares that the boppers from the Moon have not forgotten him, and are ready to help him - for example, to grant him immortality... The first book of the legendary cyberpunk tetralogy “Provision”...