A Visitor from Outer Space
- 204pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
Book by Belayev, Alexander, Savchenko, Vladimir Ivanovich, Gurevich, Gerogy
Alexander Belayev Libri
Alexander Belyaev fu un autore russo di fantascienza le cui opere esplorarono le profondità dell'ingegno umano e le sue conseguenze. Dopo aver superato una grave malattia, si dedicò alla scrittura, creando narrazioni che indagavano gli interrogativi etici del progresso scientifico e la ricerca della conoscenza. La sua scrittura fu contrassegnata da un'acuta intuizione sia sul potenziale che sui pericoli della scienza, lasciando un'impronta duratura nel genere.
The Amphibian
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
The Amphibian will throw you back to a time when skin and deep-sea diving had not yet made the Silent World begin yielding up its secrets on a really big scale, as aqualung and snorkel are doing today, and present to you Alexander Belayev's 1928 prevision of the ocean mastered by mankind. Sea-devil has appeared in the Rio de la Plata. Weird cries out at sea, slashed fishermen's nets, glimpses of a most queer creature astride a dolphin leave no room for doubt. The Spaniard Zurita, greed overcoming his superstition, tries to catch Sea-devil and force it to pearl-dive for him but fails. On a lonely stretch of shore, not far from Buenos Aires, Dr. Salvator lives in seclusion behind a high wall, whose steel-plated gates only open to let in his Indian patients. The Indians revere him as a God but Zurita has a hunch that the God on land and the devil in the sea have something in common. Enlisting the help of two wily Araucanian brothers he sets out to probe the mystery. As action shifts from the bottom of the sea to the Spaniard's schooner The Jellyfish and back again, with interludes in sun-drenched Buenos Aires and countryside, the mystery of Ichthyander the sea-devil is unfolded before the reader in a narrative as gripping as it informative.