These people in their literary works once predicted amazing things - However, much of what is created by the imagination of science fiction writers today is an objective reality, the existence of which is not questioned.
Automatic writing
“She always writes in French, in an unconscious state … What she wrote is translated into Russian and is carefully edited sometimes by the author himself, sometimes by a person close to her,” - this is how M. Spassovsky wrote in his Literary Notes about one of the most mysterious figures among science fiction writers who predicted the features of the future, the spiritualist medium Vera Kryzhanovskaya-Rochester.
Since the beginning of the 80s of the century before last, Vera Ivanovna meditated at spiritualistic seances and wrote historical novels. Already the first books of Kryzhanovskaya are filled with occult and fantastic content. The writer-medium was carried away by the theosophy of H. P. Blavatsky, who became her idol. Elena Petrovna's idea "to plunge into the world of the past in order to comprehend the future" underlies the historical and occult novels of Kryzhanovskaya "Pharaoh Merneft", "Queen Khatasu", "Sim win", "Revenge of the Jew".
Another series of books by Kryzhanovskaya entered the "occult-cosmological cycle." She wrote all her works in French, claiming that her pen was driven by the spirit of the Earl of Rochester, the English poet John Wilmot (1647-1680).
The main theme of Kryzhanovskaya's prophecies is the universal struggle of dark and light forces, the "cosmism" of man, the secrets of time and matter. Describing the future, she often used the reincarnation of the heroes' consciousness.
Particularly interesting is the pentalogy "Magicians", which tells about the immortal caste of super-beings, freely wandering in time and space. Here you can find both the teleportation of material bodies and the progress of backward civilizations. As a result, the magical race leaves the dying Earth and in spaceships goes to a new planet. There, humanity vegetates in a primitive state, and earthlings, under the guidance of magicians, create a new civilization.
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Of course, much in Kryzhanovskaya's novels looks naive, but her utopias and dystopias give rise to a lot of thought. E. I. Roerich noted: “Along with a lot of vulgarity, these books contain true pearls. Undoubtedly, she is worthy of respect, for her books have been useful. It is also undoubted that her series "Magicians" is incomparably more talented and richer in correct information than the works of many later novelists on occult themes."
For 30 years of creativity V. I. Kryzhanovskaya has created more than 80 major works, among which the utopias "On the Neighboring Planet" and "In Another World" stand out. Here we see a strange future for caste states, very reminiscent of modern "space operas".
Explaining the writer's prophetic gift, many viewed her as a writing medium, and Mikhail Bulgakov even used some plot lines in his novel The Master and Margarita.
What will Paris be like?
In April 1863, the publisher Pierre-Jules Etzel inflicted a sensitive emotional trauma on the aspiring writer Jules Verne, who debuted his first "travel and adventure" novel, "Five weeks in a balloon."
“These are completely absurd forecasts on the waves of extreme pessimism,” the venerable editor resented the novel “Paris in the XX century”. - I expected much more from you …
Bonded by a contract, Verne plunged feverishly into the work, not remembering the bad experience of futuristic predictions.
After the death of the writer in 1905, his archive of unpublished works was lost with relatives. Almost a century passed, and the great-great-grandson of the great writer stumbled upon an unknown manuscript with the initials JV - Jules Verne.
A century ago, the French writer was considered the indisputable authority in "modeling" the future. He predicted underwater suits, multi-rotor helicopters, automatic weapons, electric vehicles, giant submarines, televisions, videophones, and more.
Such insight can only be explained by a broad outlook and education. The novelist daily looked through many scientific and popular science publications, looking for the most incredible inventions and discoveries. However, Jules Verne also has pioneering innovations. These are the destruction of materials by electric discharges, hydraulic and pneumatic power steering, impact-resistant glass and surgical transplantation. Amazingly, in the cabins of the famous "Nautilus" there are gas-discharge lamps, which were created only 30 years after the writing of the novel by the great inventor Nikola Tesla. Even more mysterious are the devices for the chemical regeneration of air in the "space projectile" and the superconducting state of matter, which in a few years became the most unexpected discovery of the century.
Over time, everyone got used to the insight of the science fiction writer, but the phenomenal forecasts from "Paris in the XX century" again enveloped Verne's work in a mystical fog.
Exciting divinations
The heroes of Jules Verne's novel travel around Paris at the end of the 60s of the last century on carriages "working on the principle of air expansion due to gas combustion" and electric subway trains. Giant street electric candelabra illuminate multi-meter advertisements on high-rise glass and metal buildings. At the post offices, photocopiers work: “the machine makes copies of letters, and 500 employees continuously send them to addresses”, as well as faxes: “a photographic device that allows you to send facsimiles of any text or picture, sign bills of exchange or contracts with a partner located at a distance of 5 thousand leagues. " Telephone lines link all cities and towns, and "it takes seconds to reach America from Europe." There is even some prototype of an archaic computer.
And a colossal openwork tower rises above the city, which in reality will be designed and built by Gustave Eiffel only half a century later …
Wells atomic bomb
A century ago, one of the most amazing novels of the great writer and dreamer Herbert Wells came out - the dystopia "The World Set Free". It describes the terrible war of the middle of the 20th century with the use of "continuous atomic bombs".
And here it is necessary to recall another remarkable work of Wells - "The First Men on the Moon" - published in 1901. In the final part of the novel, the two main characters - Bedford and Cavor - establish interplanetary radio communication after traveling to the moon, where Cavor becomes a prisoner of the ant-like Selenites.
The outstanding inventor Nikola Tesla was fighting patent wars with the Italian entrepreneur Guglielmo Marconi at that time. In addition, he was bombarded with calls, letters and telegrams from intrigued readers asking to talk about interplanetary radio communications. Believing that the pseudo-scientific community would once again be deeply misled, Tesla wrote an extensive message to Mr. Wells, in which he outlined in detail the situation with the priorities and real contribution to the discovery of radio and remote controlled systems of his patents.
Soon Tesla received an answer from the great novelist, full of apologies for the semantic errors, unfortunately (and Tesla understood this perfectly from the very beginning), the writer could not change the text, having sold the rights to the manuscript to one well-known publisher, having received a fee and had already completely spent it (a sample of purely English humor). As a sign of reconciliation, he asked to be consulted on "atomic issues" for his next science fiction novel.
The inventor courteously accepted the apology of the great novelist and recommended for the first acquaintance with the subject to get acquainted with the remarkable popularization of Mr. Soddy "Radium and Its Clue".
So the writer had the idea that among the artificially man-made radioactive isotopes, some would have tremendous explosive power. When Wells shared his thoughts with Tesla, he sent the writer a fictitious patent description of a "continuous atomic bomb."
In addition to unusual technical details, at times really reminiscent of the content of some fantastic patent, the ideas of the great inventor left another mark on the novel. It should be remembered here that at the very beginning of the 20th century, Tesla put forward an amazing technocratic doctrine of "peace enforcement". According to the inventor's ideas, any country could direct energy flows to hostile armies, which created a kind of "balance of peaceful intentions." For Wells, such thoughts sound very similar and are much, almost half a century ahead of their time: a "permanent atomic charge" should be a key element in the "tactics of permanent containment of world wars within the boundaries of atomic bomb parity."
So what are the amazing insights of the writers who describe the details of the distant future in strange ways? If we discard mysticism, then … modern physics can come to the rescue. In the modern scientific picture of the world, he is "embodied" at every moment from birth in the Big Bang to death in the Big Bang or the gap. Well, since the future exists, then some informational messages may fall from it into the past. But not everyone can read them, but science fiction writers who are "tuned in".
Magazine: Secrets of the 20th century №38. Author: Oleg Faig