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Chargement... Professor Dowell's head (Macmillan's Best of Soviet science fiction) (original 1925; édition 1980)par Alexander Beliaev (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreProfessor Dowell's Head par Alexander Beliaev (1925)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This was published as part of the Theodore Sturgeon edited Russian Science Fiction series. B/c this series published multiple bks by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky & Vladimir Savchenko's "Self-Discovery", I love the whole shebang - even the ones that don't live up to those just mentioned. Having grown up in the "Cold War" era, it's refreshing to see SF used as an avenue for introducing Russian writing in the US - this bk was from 1980 so it was pretty late in the game, but, still, a valuable internationalist service was performed by SF publishers. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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It is Paris in the 1920s, that frothy heyday between the World Wars. Hidden among the opulent cabarets, cafes, and theaters, a mad scientist toils away in his own private hospital, illegally performing grotesque experimental head transplants and reanimations on bodies stolen from the morgue. Under the tutelage of the disembodied head of a former colleague, the madman is well on his way to presenting the first-ever human head transplant to the scientific community, thereby achieving professional glory and securing his legacy as the greatest scientific mind of his generation. However, when one of his test subjects escapes, he risks being exposed to the authorities as a deranged criminal, before he has a chance to prove that he is exceptional and above the law. Can he find her before she alerts the police? Can he replicate the experiment before his illegal laboratory of living heads is discovered? Will his staff remain loyal as the pressure to save themselves builds? For nearly a century, the answers to these questions have captured the imaginations of countless readers in author Alexander Belyaev's native Russia, where this bestselling novel has sold millions of copies, it has been adapted into films and other media, and it has influenced a generation of science-fiction writers. They are now brought to Anglophone readers in this smart new translation of Professor Dowell's Head from writer Carl Engel. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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