Aleksej Tolstoj - Hiperboloid inženjera Garina

ALEKSEJ TOLSTOJ

HIPERBOLOID INŽENJERA GARINA

Prevod - Krsto Radović

Izdavač - Authors &Artists, Beograd

Godina - 2008

296 strana

21 cm

Edicija - Vremeplov: biblioteka fantastike i naučne-fantastike

ISBN - 978-86-7810-077-2

Povez - Broširan

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja

"The Garin Death Ray, also known as The Death Box and The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, is a science fiction novel by the noted Russian author Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy written in 1926–1927. Vladimir Nabokov, who included parodic elements in his tragicomedy The Waltz Invention (1938), considered it Tolstoy's finest fictional work.

The "hyperboloid" in its title is not a geometrical surface (though it is utilized in the device design) but a "death ray"-laser-like device (thought up by the author many decades before lasers were invented) that the protagonist, engineer Garin, used to fight his enemies and try to become the dictator of the world. The idea of a "death ray" (popularized in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, among others) was commonplace in science fiction of the time, but Tolstoy's version is unique for its level of technical details. "Hyperboloids" of different power capability differ in their effect. The device uses two hyperbolic mirrors (in contrast to Wells's Heat-Ray, which uses a parabolic mirror) to concentrate light rays in a parallel beam. Larger "hyperboloids" can destroy military ships on the horizon, and those of less power can only injure people and cut electric cables on walls of rooms.

Charles H. Townes, the inventor of laser, said that his invention had been inspired by this novel. The film adaptations of the novel were released in the Soviet Union in 1965 (The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin) and 1973 (Failure of Engineer Garin). "

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Hiperbolid Inžinjera Gerina Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy The Garin Death Ray