Professor Dowell's Head. Belyaev A. R.

Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (1884-1942)-Russian writer-fantast, reporter, lawyer. One of the founders of Soviet science fiction literature. For a significant contribution to Russian science fiction and visionary ideas, Belyaev is called “Russian Jules Verne.”

In his science fiction novels, Belyaev anticipated the appearance of many inventions-television, space, orbital stations, unmanned aerial vehicles, predicted Many achievements in the field of biology and medicine.

“The head of Professor Dowel” is a science fiction novel, one of the most famous works of the writer. Initially, under this name in the “Working Newspaper” in 1925, a story was published. In the same year, the novel was printed in the magazine "World Rastype". The Parisian professor-surgeon Kern in his private clinic secretly conducts work to revive the human head. Marie Laran accidentally learns about the existence of a lively head of his former leader Professor Dowel...

“Island of the dead ships”-an adventure novel, first published in 1926-1927. In the magazine "World Rastype." On board the transatlantic liner coming from Genoa to New York, the detective Jimmy Simpkins accompanies the arrested criminal Reginald Gatling. During the storm, the ship begins to sink, boats with passengers and crew have already sailed when the detective and arrested got out to the deck. The liner kept afloat and the Simpkins, Gatling and the daughter of the American billionaire was drowned by the ocean left on it, until the current brings them to the Sargass Sea...