Professor Dowell's Head

Professor Dowell's Head
Author: Alexander Belyaev
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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.

The Head of Professor Dowell

The Head of Professor Dowell
Author: Alexander Belyaev
Publisher: TSK Group LLC
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2024-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Marie Lauran is a young medical school graduate desperately looking for a job. Just as her savings are about to run out, she lands an assistant position with the famous surgeon, Professor Kern. The terms of her contract are somewhat strange, but the pay is spectacular, and Marie is the sole breadwinner in her household. When she takes the job and steps through the door of Professor Kern's laboratory, Marie enters a nightmare world she realizes she cannot escape. Instead of a promising medical career, she ends up in the middle of a fight for her life and sanity, where she can trust no one and where everything she believed in is put into question.

The Last Man from Atlantis

The Last Man from Atlantis
Author: Alexander Belyaev
Publisher: TSK Group LLC
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2024-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

What begins with a bored millionaire looking for a new hobby, develops into a great international project, uncovering lives, mysteries, and tragedies of a long lost civilization.

In the Shadow of the Dragon

In the Shadow of the Dragon
Author: Winter Nie
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814431704

The ômade in Chinaö label has long dominated the lower end of the US manufacturing industry, effectively squeezing it out of existence. That's old news. What most people don't know is that China's global reach now extends much further. Chinese companies have entered higher-end marketsùtechnology, financial services, transportation, energyùand are emerging as powerhouse multinationals. In the Shadow of the Dragon is a meticulously researched exposT of the most competitive companies in China. Based on interviews with Chinese business leaders and original case studies, the book provides: ò Profiles of key players ò Insights into subtle yet powerful strategies used to gain market dominance ò An understanding of the Chinese approach to going global ò Analysis of the Chinese way of innovation ò Advice on competing head-to-head or forming alliances with Chinese partners Part primer, part survival guide, In the Shadow of the Dragon is the first book to lay bare the challenges looming ahead.

Fearful Symmetries

Fearful Symmetries
Author: Thomas F. Monteleone
Publisher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635767598

The Bram Stoker Award–winning short story collection. “These solidly crafted tales consistently evoke an enjoyably unsettling mood of horror.” —Publishers Weekly Thomas F. Monteleone displays his mastery of the horror genre in the selected short fiction of Fearful Symmetries, collected works spanning more than twenty years of his career. Revel in the deftly deployed classic horror tropes of these twenty-six stories, from their Lovecraftian monsters and archetypal vampires to Bradbury-esque mysteries and Twilight Zone-type tales. In “The Night Is Freezing Fast,” a mysterious hitchhiker emerges from a white-out winter storm, following a boy and his grandfather into an ever-more dangerous evening. “Love Letters”—written as a series of letters from a backwoods Pennsylvanian farmer, a private investigator, and an adult pen pal service—subtly instills psychological suspense into the epistolary form. From celebrity-hunting vampires in “Triptych di Amore” to Lovecraftian behemoths in “Yog Sothoth, Superstar,” there’s a skillfully told trope for every horror reader. With a wry author’s note accompanying each story, and an introduction from the late Rick Hautala, the Bram Stoker Award–winning Fearful Symmetries thrills and disturbs with its twisted tales. Praise for Thomas F. Monteleone “Monteleone has a dark imagination, a wicked pen, and the rare ability to convey an evil chill with words.” —Dean Koontz, New York Times–bestselling author “Tom’s an expert storyteller.” —F. Paul Wilson, author of The Keep and Deep as the Marrow “A vastly entertaining novel of horror and suspense [that poses] difficult questions about the nature of man, God and the devil.” —Los Angeles Daily News “The story is irresistible, moving to a mighty climax.” —The New York Times

Ariel

Ariel
Author: Alexander Belyaev
Publisher: Tsk Group LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ariel does not know who he is, where he is from, or what is his purpose in life. The chance to get the answers comes in the form of a strange experiment, in which Ariel receives the ability to fly.

Ten Miles Past Normal

Ten Miles Past Normal
Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416995862

From bestselling author Dowell comes a "funny and winning" ("Kirkus Reviews")tale of one teen's quest for normalcy--and the much more exciting detours shetakes along the way.

Neither Alive Nor Dead

Neither Alive Nor Dead
Author: Alexander Belyaev
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2020-04-05
Genre:
ISBN:

Alexander Belyaev was the outstanding Soviet science fiction writer of the first half of the twentieth century. He had written many science fiction novels and short stories. The most famous of them: 'The Amphibian Man', 'Professor Dowell's Head', 'Seller of Air', 'Lord of the World'. Many of his works had been translated into foreign languages and filmed.This book presents a little-known short story by Alexander Belyaev: 'Neither alive nor dead'. It tells the story of how schemer named Carlson decided to use the achievements of science in the study of suspended animation of living organisms and to freeze the unemployed at a time of economic crisis. What came out of it, the reader can learn from this book.

A Visitor from Outer Space

A Visitor from Outer Space
Author: Alexander Belayev
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781589633315

Alexander Belayev (1884-1942). A notable writer of fiction whose life was strange and hard. For years tuberculosis of the spine kept him confined to his bed, yet he was able to enjoy a full and interesting life. He studied law, attended lectures at the Conservatoire, enjoyed working on newspapers and periodicals and was, deeply interested in science and technical problems. Belayev produced a whole library of attractive books of science fiction. Hoity-Toity, one of the stories in this volume, is from a series of excellent stories collected under the title Professor Wagner's Inventions. Alexander Kazantsev (b.1906) is a master of adventure stories and science-fiction books. A Visitor from Outer Space and The Martian, two of the stories included in this volume, occupy a special place in Kazantsev's creations. It was Kazantsev who, in 1946, put forward his hypothesis regarding the Tungus meteorite and a space ship from Mars which, at the time, provoked numerous arguments which have not abated to this day.Vladimir Savchenko (b. 1933) is a capable physicist who specializes in semi-conductors. Recently he wrote a science-fiction story Black Stars which deals with problems of nuclear physics, and also a sketch called The Rocket Is No Answer. The present volume includes Savchenko's Professor Bern's Awakening (1956).The names of the Strugatsky brothers Arkady and Boris are frequently met with in Soviet popular scientific journals. In fact there are few who do not know that these authors of interesting stories about robots or strangers from outer space are not writers by profession but people who merely devote their leisure time to science fiction.Boris Strugatsky (b. 1933) is an astronomer working in the computer laboratory of Pulkovo Observatory. Arkady Strugatsky (b. 1925) is a linguist specializing in the Japanese, a translator and reviewer.Georgy Gurevich (b. 1917), a building engineer by training, is a professional writer of science fiction. Problems of climatic changes, biology, journeys to the stars, man's use of the ionosphere all find a place in Gurevich's books. The Infra-Draconis, included in this volume, is a story which tells of what awaits man behind the half-open door to outer space.