Professor Dowell's Head

Alexander Belyaev (1884 - 1942) is a famous science fiction writer, a classic of Russian science fiction and adventure novels, who combined an adventurous plot with the anticipation of scientific discoveries. The idea of the novel "The Head of Professor Dowell" came to the writer when he was bedridden, essentially feeling like a "head without a body." Thus, A. Belyaev continued the theme of the life of a head without a body in literature thanks to scientific achievements. Herbert Wells highly praised the novels "The Head of Professor Dowell" and "The Amphibian Man", calling them "wonderful" and "quite favorably different from Western books."