The novel by the prominent Ukrainian writer Yuriy Shcherbak “Time of the Great Game. The Phantoms of 2079 is a brilliant political anti-utopia that unfolds after the Fourth Global War. At the heart of the novel is the dramatic fate of the protagonist, Ukrainian intelligence general Ihor Haiduk. Acting during the Great Darkness and after its end, taking part in a brutal political struggle, exposing himself to a mortal risk, General Haiduk makes a fateful decision… The Time of the Great Game continues the storyline of the Time of the Deathly Hallows, where the grotesque form and fantasy of situations are the real scale of possible geopolitical events of the future. The fact that Yuriy Shcherbak, as a former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Israel, has a broad perspective on international relations also gives the works great persuasiveness. In the “TIME” trilogy, he generously uses citations of secret documents that reveal the cynicism and double standards of players on the world political scene, and presents his paradoxical vision of what could happen to Ukraine and the world in the future.