Professor Dowell's Head

Alexander Belyaev (1884 - 1942) - the most famous science fiction writer, a classic of Russian science fiction and an adventure novel, combining an adventurous plot with the anticipation of scientific discoveries. The idea of ​​the novel “The Head of Professor Dowell” came up with the writer when he was chained to bed, actually feeling “head without a body”. So A. Belyaev continued in the literature the theme of life of the head without a body thanks to scientific achievements. Herbert Wells praised the novels “The Head of Professor Dowel” and “Ampibbum Man”, calling them “wonderful”, and “are very favorably different from Western books”.