Perhaps I will express an unpopular and even seditious thought, but reading science fiction novels of the past is no longer interesting. You should not cite yourself as an example to modern adolescents and recommend for reading the literature popular in our adolescence.
In all honesty, tell me, is Jules Verne so relevant today? Personally, no. Why read about what has become reality? Submarines, described in the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," have long plowed the vastness of the world's oceans. So what is the intrigue, because this is already commonplace.
Are HG Wells' novels as mesmerizing as they used to be?
Alas, there was no alien invasion of Earth. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the "War of the Worlds" never took place. And it is unlikely to come already. Rather, humanity will destroy itself, trying to divide such a small globe between the warring clans and tribes!
The time machine was not invented, built, or made into reality. If only we do not know everything about the modern research of scientists, not everything is made public, then yes. Perhaps, somewhere in deep bunkers underground, the notorious colider was dispersed to its maximum speed long ago and pierced space and time. Only ordinary people do not need to know about this. But in any case, it’s boring to read about traveling forward or backward in time. Most likely, nothing supernatural awaits us in the future - everything has already been invented, described, discovered. As you know, the universe develops in a spiral, each new round is just a repetition of the past, but at a different, higher level.
The novels of Soviet science fiction writers about intergalactic flights are also irrelevant, remember Efremov's Andromeda Nebula. People have been flying to the stars for a long time, they have lived in orbit for a long time. Yes, we are not yet storming other galaxies, but not all at once, as they say. Although, most likely, in our century the first intergalactic flight will not happen. For him, humanity simply does not have enough technical resources and scientific knowledge. That is why it would be so funny to watch the film "Youths in the Universe" today "on an adult head". Readers of my generation will remember this cute fantastic tape, which tells how teenagers went on a long space journey. If I am not confusing anything, then they did not have much of a chance to return to earth. Or rather, not so: by the time they had to return, everyone they knew was already old and would have died.
Let's think about what has come true from what was described in the fantastic books, and what has yet to be realized. And is it possible, even now, with the modern development of scientific and technological progress.
So: there are vehicles for transportation under water. Apparatus for flying into the sky ply the airspace. Spaceships regularly take off, carrying people in their iron belly to work in near-earth space. This is what comes to mind immediately.
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Doctors have learned to transplant donor organs and even regenerate damaged cells, internal organs and skin areas, but no one performed a head transplant. There was recently an unhealthy excitement in the press about a loud statement from an Italian doctor who promised this risky procedure. But things did not go beyond the hype. Probably, humanity is not yet ready for such radical methods of combating incurable diseases. It's like flying to Cassiopeia - there is not enough knowledge and technical base. Therefore, Belyaev's novel "The Head of Professor Dowell" will remain fiction. To tell the truth is for the best. After all, not only medical issues would have to be addressed by doctors, but also ethical ones. It is one thing to transplant a kidney or even a heart from a deceased donor, another to a body. Who would be a man divided into two parts? Who would be more in it:the owner of the head, or heart, lungs and other vital organs. If you remember, in Belyaev's novel this ethical issue was also touched upon. Moreover, he was one of the main ones in the story.
Yes, and there was also Wells' novel The Invisible Man. A young scientist invents a drug that can make him invisible. Science fiction, which will never become reality, for objective, biological reasons. When creating Jonathan, the main character, Wells left out one small but important detail. Instead of unlimited power over the world, the invisible would drag out a miserable existence. He would simply be blind! Rays of light that freely passed through the body would also easily penetrate the retina of the eye. And now, instead of a superman, we "see" an unfortunate blind man in front of us.
But not everything is so sad with abilities that go beyond the ordinary. With the modern development of genetic engineering, the events described in the novel "Genome" by A. Lukyanenko may well become reality.
The earliest known inventor and science fiction writer was Leonardo da Vinci. But even he never dreamed of the so-called "exoskeletons" helping people with disabilities to live a full life! The ideas about invincible soldiers are practically embodied in reality: the exoskeletons clad in light and strong armor, the soldiers will easily overcome long distances, go without food for a long time, and not feel pain from wounds.
Yes, Leonardo was not only a brilliant artist, a great scientist, but also a science fiction writer. What else can you call his work on the creation of a wing and a machine for moving through the air? For his time, he was not just an inventor, but a dreamer. How could his contemporaries have assumed that a person would rise into the air or create an internal combustion engine!
But, alas, fantasy, embodied in reality, ceases to be interesting. It excites only abstruse literary critics who are always trying to find an answer to the question "what the author wanted to convey to us in his work." The naive attempts of science fiction writers of the past to describe the world of the future are now nothing more than history. Popular science fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is morally outdated. So one "bitten apple" instantly loses its freshness and novelty as soon as a new model is thrown onto the market.
