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Alexander Belyaev was the “Russian Jules Verne.” He was considered as such because he also could foresee the future that showed in their wise and mysterious novels, like the great French science fiction. Moreover, Belyaev even predicted his own death …
Amphibian and scuba gear
In his youth, he really wanted to become a lawyer, and therefore, contrary to the will his parents learned to be a lawyer. In his novice lawyer a fateful event occurs in practice, to him for legal protection comes clairvoyant, who was accused of deliberate the death of several men, although she simply predicted their demise. Belyaev jokingly asked the visitor to predict his fate
You yourself have a visionary talent, the woman replied, you yourself can look into the future. But I will say that your life will be bright, although unbearably heavy (it happened, see below is a documentary about Belyaev). Belyaev grinned and took up the case of the fortuneteller. And he won it.
He, of course, did not become a prophet in the full sense of the word, but Alexander had the talent to notice only the nascent trends in the development of society.
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That’s why one of his first vivid novels was a book “Amphibian Man”. They say that Belyaev in her foresaw the appearance of light scuba invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943, however Today, some researchers of the work of the Russian science fiction writer, believe that he looked much further into the future, that is, in the time when a person will actually be able to “live in the sea” without any scuba gear – like a fish, for example with artificial gills, and this future is not as far as we think …
Air pollution
The idea of the novel “Seller of Air” seems to be born by chance: in during a trip to the Crimea on the occasion of his illness, Belyaev meets in train family that suffered from a man-made accident on one of the enterprises of Kuzbass and now drove south for amendment health – rehabilitation. But the visionary writer behind this seems to be random episode immediately sees the impending environmental disaster when the environment becomes contaminated to disgrace industrial emissions, and clean air will turn into a product, accessible only to rich people.
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It seems that today it’s not a secret for anyone that we are just for this a sad scenario for the development of civilization and move, and if nothing in the near future will not change then in large cities (first the turn is precisely in megacities) clean air will soon be sold the same way as, say, read water is sold today. it may seem a little fantastic and even funny, but in the 90s years of the last century over the famous businessman Vladimir Dovgan also laughed when he started his “water business” in Russia, and today they sell pure bottling water practically in every decent store.
Orbital station
The book “CEC Star” was written by Belyaev in 1936, and the reason was the friendship of two incorrigible dreamers – science fiction writer and scientist Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (CEC is the initials of the Soviet space explorer. And the novel itself – about the launch of the orbital station, the astronauts going out into the open space, flight to the moon). But why did Belyaev suddenly make friends with Tsiolkovsky, and not with anyone else?
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These two dreamers overtook their time, and significantly overtaken since the first orbital station of the Earth “Salute” will appear only in 1973, and, presumably, has not flown to the moon yet nobody (the American lunar missile Apollo is too much like adventure) so far.
Psychotropic weapons and drones
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In 1926, Alexander Belyaev’s book, The Lord of the World, was published. which he practically predicts the appearance of drones and psychotropic weapons. The first successful tests of unmanned planes passed in the UK only ten years later after Belyaev’s “prophecy,” but about a psychotropic weapon, like really existing, separate rumors crept only at the end last century. However, it is still unclear whether it is available on armament of one or another country, although today no one is doubts that this is possible.
Plastic surgery
Belyaev also foresaw the opportunity to change his appearance (novel “A person who has lost face”), while, unlike foresight modern plastic surgery, science fiction goes much deeper and further likely affecting genetic engineering than change appearance under the influence of a scalpel.
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But the insight of this work is not even in this, but in those problems that a person who has tried artificially, and not spiritually, to change what God has given him.
The last prediction of the great science fiction writer
In 1940, probably, everyone foresaw the approaching war. Russians, however, Alexander Belyaev already knew that he was “world thunderstorm” simply will not survive, as openly spoke to relatives and close ones. At this time he writes one of his most piercing works, embodying his childhood dream – the ability to fly (novel “Ariel”). Researchers of Russian science fiction are united in opinion that the book turned out biographical and prophetic, in it the writer predicts his demise and at the same time shows how flies out of this world, like Ariel.
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Alexander Belyaev died in 1943 in besieged Leningrad, died almost from hunger, and was buried in a common grave with thousands of the same unfortunate Leningraders. When to Leningrad after the war ended, the writer’s wife returned, she found glasses in the apartment husband with a note attached to them: “Do not look for my footprints on Earth, I am waiting for you in Heaven. Your eternal Ariel “…
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