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One freight train driver helped two dying military personnel using completely unofficial technology. If he'd known the consequences... He would have done the exact same thing anyway.
While reading this edgy sci-fi novel about family values, you keep getting the feeling that he's not at all what he pretends to be. Well, you don't.
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Professor Dowell conducts audacious experiments without considering the consequences, unaware that he himself might become a subject. His brilliant ideas and nearly unthinkable concepts are taken over entirely by his own student. However, the student desires to freely manipulate the scientist's intriguing scientific endeavors.
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"The Man Who Lost His Face" is a science fiction novel by Alexander Belyaev. It tells the story of Tonio Presto, a dwarf comedian from San Francisco whose film success does not help him in his personal life due to his deformity. He decides to change his appearance with the Russian doctor Sorokin and becomes a beautiful but unfamiliar man. He gives up his career and disappears. Later, a gang appears in the city, whose members can change their appearance....
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Antonio Presto, a famous comedian, undergoes a transformation to change his appearance and gain recognition beyond his comedic talents. However, his new identity causes complications, including legal troubles and relationship challenges. He eventually succeeds in the film industry but faces heartbreak when his love interest, Ellen, decides to leave due to false rumors.
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In a remote German fishing village, Professor Broier, a biochemist, develops "miracle dough," a self-sustaining food. The secret leaks, causing chaos as entrepreneurs commercialize it. Uncontrolled growth of the substance leads to a global catastrophe. Broier is arrested but manages to create a fungus to destroy the "eternal dough."
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The young German scientist Ludwig Stirner, a graduate student of Professor Gehre, is engaged in reflexology, but due to lack of money he leaves his scientific work and becomes the secretary of the banker Karl Gottlieb. Stirner is courting one of the employees, Elsa Gluck, but she prefers the bank's legal adviser, Otto Sauer, to him. In his free time, the man continues his experiments and manages to create a device for transmitting thoughts at a distance,...
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The large transatlantic liner Benjamin Franklin departs from Genoa for New York. Detective Jim Simpkins is on board, transporting the criminal Reginald Gatling, who he arrested in Europe, to the United States. During a storm, the ship begins to sink, but due to the detective's indecisiveness, they get on deck too late, when all the boats with the escaping passengers and crew have already sailed. Nevertheless, the liner remained afloat, and the remaining...
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"The Last Man From Atlantis" by Alexander Belyaev follows the incredible journey of the sole survivor of Atlantis, who emerges from the depths to explore a world vastly changed by time. His encounters with modern civilization and his quest for belonging make for a thought-provoking adventure.
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"Amphibian Man" by Alexander Belyaev is a classic science fiction novel about Ichthyander, a young man with gills who can live both underwater and on land. His unique abilities lead to a life of adventure, love, and danger as he navigates the challenges of a world that doesn't fully understand his nature. This gripping tale explores themes of identity, acceptance, and the mysteries of the deep, making it a timeless and thought-provoking read.
10) Sputnik
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A doctor whose controversial practice has threatened her license is recruited by the military to treat a cosmonaut. Returning from space after a mysterious accident, the man has brought with him a nocturnal passenger which thrives on destruction; Tatyana wants to stop it from killing while the military wants to keep it as a secret weapon.
11) Solaris
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Criterion collection volume 164
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Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
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Criterion collection volume 164
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Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
13) Stalker
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At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must...
14) Solaris
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Criterion collection volume 164
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Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
15) Stalker
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Criterion collection volume 888
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Inside a mysterious realm called the zone there is The Room, a place that will grant you your innermost desire. Stalker, a man that knows how to pass the deadly secrets of The Zone, escorts a group of people to the Room.
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A famous scientist believes that if people were able to live in the ocean, they would be able to resolve all their economical and political problems. He creates the first human amphibian out of his son by transplanting gills onto him. The utopian project turns out tragically.
17) Coma =: Koma
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After a tragic accident, a young architect wakes up in a dystopian world. Here, the reality is made from the memories of people who have fallen into a comatose state. Cities, rivers, and the sky all flow in and out of each other fragmented and unstable just like our memories. The common laws of physics don't exist and nightmarish reapers roam the land spreading death.
18) Guardians
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During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a superhero squad that included members of various Soviet republics. For years, the heroes hid in the shadows, but now they must emerge to defend Mother Russia from a threat unlike any other they have faced before: the diabolical scientist Kuratov.
19) Hard to be a god
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Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
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No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something went wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from the Space. There are dead corpses everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? How long will the...
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