Amphibian Man. Belyaev A.

The book includes two novels of the founder of Soviet science fiction Alexander Belyaev-“Ampibbum Man” (1928) and “Man who found his face” (1940), whose main characters pass through the achievements of modern medicine through amazing metamorphoses, forever changing their fate. Young Ichthyandra is, of course, the most famous character in Belyaevsky prose - as a result of a daring experiment, carried out once by his foster father, the Argentine surgeon Salvator, gained the ability to live in the water element, which gives him harmony with nature and a meeting with the beautiful Guttiere and at the same time becomes his curse, Forever separating an amphibian man from his lover and a human race. The hero of the second novel, the American actor Antonio Presto, the ugly dwarf with amusing gestures and facial expressions, the commander in role and the tragic in the soul, rejected by the conceited Hollywood couch and tired of being a source of universal laughter, decides on the radical transformation of his appearance, without suspecting what dramatic changes will bring It is in his life...