Information broker Alain Blomenfeld escapes from assassins due to stock market fraud. His path leads to Burgundy, where the local queen needed his services. There is only one problem, Alain doesn’t remember anything, doesn’t remember why they want to kill him, he can’t even recognize his wife, and is she even a wife?! Alternative annotation: Use the arrow to expand or collapse this section Request a recommendation for this anthology of some of his short prose, Strauss replied: “With the possible exception of the story “Bear Trap,” which barely squeezes into the framework of this genre, I do not write small space operas at all. Well, yes, of course, there are other exceptions: some parts of “Accelerando” sound sort of like space opera... But they are still parts of a novel and therefore, probably, are not suitable for you.” Therefore, it was decided to present the story “Bearish” in this collection trap."