V romane Leonida Bershidskogo Provereno na zhivotnykh deystvie razvorachivaetsya v parallel'noy vselennoy, kotoraya to li na neskol'ko let operezhayet nashu, to li slegka ot neyo otstayot. Avtoritarnyy pravitel' stalkivayetsya s krylatoy ugrozoy, sulyashchey glubinnuyu transformatsiyu i yemu, i rezhimu. Molodaya zhenshchina-biokhimik uznayot nechto neozhidannoye o podopytnykh zhivotnykh i vynuzhdena ostavit' nauku radi protestnoy politiki. Tekhnokrat-upravlenets teryayet veru v matematicheskiye modeli i ishchet vykhod v grazhdanskom nepovinovenii. Tri syuzhetnye linii skhodyatsya, predveshchaya global'nyy krizis i, vozmozhno, prodolzheniye istorii.
