Professor Dowell's Head

by Alexander Belyaev

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09L4RXV4L
• ISBN13: 9798985149708
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: King Tide Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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.