About the book: 1990 / Belyaev A. Inventions of Professor Wagner. / Ill. A.S. Plaksina. - Moscow: Pravda, 1990. - 448 pp., illus. The collection of selected works by the remarkable Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Romanovich Belyaev includes the novel “Lord of the World”, novellas and short stories from the cycle “The Inventions of Professor Wagner”, distinguished by their genre and thematic diversity, fascinating plot. CONTENTS: LORD OF THE WORLD. (Science-fiction novel)… 3. INVENTIONS OF PROFESSOR WAGNER (Materials for his biography, collected by A. Belyaev)… 189. STORIES: Ancestor’s instinct… 259. Blind flight… 275. Secham, open!!!.. 289. Mr. Laughter … 309. Neither life nor death... 333. Head west!.. 369. Death's head... 381. Invisible light… 431.