This time Alexey Ivanov turned to science fiction. A crew of lumberjacks on an all-terrain vehicle makes their way through the dense forests of the Urals to an abandoned military site in the mysterious Yaman-Tau mountain. And the world around — it seems like ours, but somehow not quite... The geography is real, but the villages and small towns are empty, factories are dead, roads overgrown with trees. And most importantly — the forest itself has changed. Its vegetation has been artificially accelerated for timber harvesting, and the forest has mutated. It lives its own life. It has risen against civilization: in its depths are plague walkers — insane machines, and people here lose their biological nature. However, is it only biological?.. The lumberjack crews are no better than the world around them: they are competitors and at war with each other. The novel "Vegetation" is built on the canons of many genres. It is a road movie — a story of a journey, an odyssey. It is post-apocalyptic. It is dieselpunk in the Russian backwoods. It is solid sci-fi — science fiction. The species variety of dystopias is like the mutated forest, yet "Vegetation" tells not about where the heroes are going, but where we ourselves are headed.