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Paperback Professor Dowell's Head Book

ISBN: B09L4RXV4L

ISBN13: 9798985149708

Professor Dowell's Head

(Part of the Best of Soviet SF Series)

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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...

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Great science fiction novel!

Great Russian science fiction novel! Also read his The Amphibian Man, The Last Man from Atlantis, The Lord of the World and many others by Alexander Beliaev.

Believ is a Giant of Russian SciFi

Beliaev was one of the great Russian scifi writers. In this novel he foresees technology that would allow the brain to function without the body. This compelling narrative sounds an important warning for the future, which is more relevant today than ever before.
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