Professor Dowell's Head

Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (1884-1942) - Russian science fiction writer, reporter, lawyer. One of the founders of Soviet science fiction literature. For his significant contribution to Russian science fiction and visionary ideas, Belyaev is called the "Russian Jules Verne".In his science fiction novels, Belyaev anticipated the appearance of many inventions - television, manned space flights, orbital stations, unmanned aerial vehicles, predicted many achievements in the field of biology and medicine."Professor Dowell's Head" - a science fiction novel, one of the writer's most famous works. Originally, a short story was published under this title in the "Rabochaya Gazeta" in 1925. In the same year, the novel was published in the magazine "Vsemirny Slepot". The Parisian surgeon Professor Kern secretly conducts work on reviving a human head in his private clinic. Marie Laurent accidentally learns about the existence of the revived head of his former supervisor, Professor Dowell, by Kern..."The Island of Lost Ships" - an adventure novel, first published in 1926-1927 in the magazine "Vsemirny Slepot". On board the transatlantic liner traveling from Genoa to New York, detective Jimmy Simpkins accompanies the arrested criminal Reginald Gatling. During a storm, the ship begins to sink, the lifeboats with passengers and crew have already sailed when the detective and the prisoner made it to the deck. The liner stayed afloat and Simpkins, Gatling, and the rescued daughter of the American billionaire, who remained on it, drift across the ocean until the current carries them into the Sargasso Sea...For senior school age.