The Death Box

( Russian - Giperboloid Inzhenera Garina - 1927 )

novel by Alexei Tolstoi

translated by Bernard Guibert then George Hanna

Published: Methuen - hardback - 1936 ( trans. by B.G. )
ISBN: none

titled 'The Garin Death Ray' ( trans. by G.H. )
Foreign Languages Publishing House - hardback - 1957
ISBN: none

titled 'Engineer Garin and his Death Ray' ( trans. by G.H. )
Raduga Publishers - hardback - 1997
ISBN: 5050011760 / 9785050011763

title 'The Garin Death Ray''
University Press of the Pacific - trade paperback - 2001 ( POD )
ISBN: 089875271X / 9780898752717


synopsis

The story of an attempt to use a remarkable invention to establish the absolute power of one man throughout the world. Garin, inventor of a powerful death ray, also aims at subjugating the majority of the world's population by means of a "little operation" to their brains which will make slaves of them, willing to work, like beasts of burden, for their food alone, so that the chosen few, the "patricians," might live a life of pleasure.
The scheme is countered by the champions of the common people, two bold fighters - young Gusev and the fearless Shelga.

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