This was my very first post on the 8th of Novermber, 2025, though it was never meant to be so. As it happened, Andrea Pető, a renowned historian and gender scholar and myself wrote a book together. We began working on our joint work in early 2024. The subject is strikingly topical; the text, while being rigorously documented and thoroughly well-researched, is designed to be quite easily accessible to anyone interested. The title - by my journalistic instincts - is inviting, catchy even. The cover -owing to the work of the brilliant graphic designer - is eloquent and multilayered. I hope Andrea would not mind me saying this, but the book in every sense turned out to be a piece of science storytelling. And yet the road to publication proved rougher than expected.