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An inspired work of science fiction and a biting political allegory, Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs tells of a brilliant scientist whose experiments with life spiral terribly-and fatefully-out of control. Foreword by Doris Lessing.
Quite by chance, Professor Persikov discovers a new form of light ray whose effect, when directed at living cells, is to accelerate growth in primitive organisms. But when this ray is shone on the wrong batch of eggs, the Professor finds himself both the unwilling creator of giant hybrids and the focus of a merciless press campaign. For it seems the propaganda machine has turned its gaze upon him, distorting his nature in the very way his "innocent" tampering created the monster snakes and crocodiles that now terrorize the neighborhood.
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Fatal Eggs
Fatal Eggs,Mikhail Bulgakov,Doris Lessing,Hugh Aplin,Hesperus Press,1843910632,Fiction,Fiction - Science Fiction,Russian Novel And Short Story,Science Fiction - General
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